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Greens Moor
Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Greens Moor
Classification Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Burngrange; Kersewell Mains
Canmore ID 48877
Site Number NT04NW 21
NGR NT 0231 4952
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48877
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Carnwath
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT04NW 21 0231 4952.
(NT 0228 4955) Pile of Stones (NAT)
OS 6" map (1957)
On the N edge of Greens Moor are the remains of a long cairn lying within the group of small cairns described under NT04NW 30. Situated on the southern lip of a broad natural gulley a little over 1km NW of the derelict steading of Burngrange and about 800m W of the chambered cairn NT04NW 15, the cairn appears at present as a low elongated mound composed largely of rounded boulders and measuring 82m long from N to S by 13m in greatest breadth. Nowhere more than 1m high, it has been heavily robbed, and a quarry has been driven into the E side about 20m from the N end, where there are the remains of a stone sheepfold. At the furthest limit of the quarry an upright slab measuring 1.0m by 0.4m and 0.5m high has been exposed in the heart of the cairn; it is set at right angles to the long axis of the mound, but does not appear to form part of a chamber.
(RCAHMS 1978, visited 1975; A S Henshall 1972, visited 1968)
NT 0231 4952. A long cairn as described in the previous information.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 20 February 1979
Measured Survey (6 August 1968)
Field Visit (October 1975)
Long Cairn, Greens Moor (LNK 2) .
On the N edge of Greens Moor, a heather-covered shoulder of rising ground in the fork of the North Medwin and the Westruther Burn, there are the remains of a long cairn lying within the group of small cairns described under RCAHMS 1978 No. 60 [NT04NW 30]. Situated on the southern lip of abroad natural gully a little over I km NW of the derelict steading of Burngrange and about 800 m W of the chambered cairn RCAHMS 1978 No. 1 (NT04NW 15), the cairn appears at present as a low elongated mound composed largely of rounded boulders and measuring 82 m long from N to S by 13 min greatest breadth. Nowhere more than 1 m high, it has been heavily robbed, and a quarry has been driven into the E side about 20 m from the N end, where there are the remains of a stone sheepfold. At the furthest limit of the quarry an upright slab measuring 1.0 m by 0.4 m and 0.5 m high has been exposed in the heart of the cairn; it is set at right angles to the long axis of the mound, but does not appear to form part of a chamber.
RCAHMS 1978, visited October 1975
022495 NT 04 NW
Field Visit (16 July 2013)
This long cairn is aligned N and S and is largely as planned and described previously. It stands immediately to the S of a natural gully and takes the form of an elongated mound of stone that narrows and reduces in height as its descends S. The tail of the cairn gives the impression of having been extended S in two sections, the central sector appearing as two parallel banks of stone, though this may simply be the result of robbing loose stones from the core of the mound rather than those embedded in the turf and vegetation along its flanks. An enclosure defined by a low stony bank has been built against the W side towards the N end of the cairn, and at least one small hut is visible immediately to the N of the rounded S end. The only other feature of note is a spread of stones beneath the turf that extends E from the broad N end of the cairn along the S lip of the gully; its date and purpose are unknown.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG, SPH) 16 July 2013
