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South Cathkin Farm
Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name South Cathkin Farm
Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 44918
Site Number NS65NW 31
NGR NS 627 579
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44918
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Carmunnock (East Kilbride)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District East Kilbride
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS65NW 31 627 579.
NS 627 579. Enclosure: Thirty metres E of plantation, SW of Easthills Farm, on a gorse-covered tabular outcrop in field, is a bank of compact small stones under grass, 1.8m - 2.0m thick, almost flush with the ground, forms an oval enclosure 12.0m N-S by 11.0m overall.
T C Welsh 1973.
Welsh notes three subcircular, flat-topped elevations, including that noted above, in the area centred NS 627 579. These basalt surfaces are surprisingly unweathered and it is suggested that they were formerly covered by cairns, removed in the 18th/19th centuries, 3m to 4m high, a third of which has been quarried, exposing a whin core with peripheral unconsolidated material. This may explain a reference in the New Statistical Account (NSA) to cairns in a line (in Carmunnock parish) " one of them still survives in part 14-15ft high."
NSA 1845; Information contained in letter from T C Welsh to OS, 2 January 1981.
