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Long Calderwood
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Long Calderwood
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 44878
Site Number NS65NE 28
NGR NS 6577 5614
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44878
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish East Kilbride (South Lanarkshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District East Kilbride
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (August 1976)
NS 657 561. Cairn, Long Calderwood. A stony mound, measuring 11m by 6m and 0.5m high, situated at the junction of two plantations immediately N of Calderwood Housing Estate, is all that remains of a round cairn recorded by Wilson in 1936 (i, 358-9). Nothing can now be seen of a cist which was visible at that time.
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1976.
Field Visit (2 December 1985)
NS65NE 28 6577 5614.
The remains of a probable cairn measuring about 17.5m in diameter by up to 1m in height around the N half; elsewhere the cairn has been reduced to a maximum height of 0.6m.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 2 December 1985
Field Visit (1988)
This site was visited in the course of fieldwork by Dr. T.C. Welsh in 1988.
For further details, see MS/737/4
