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Kersewell Mains

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Kersewell Mains

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Backmoor Wood; Waulkmill

Canmore ID 48882

Site Number NT04NW 26

NGR NT 0142 4900

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council South Lanarkshire
  • Parish Carnwath
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Clydesdale
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NT04NW 26 0142 4900.

(NT 0142 4900) Cairn (NR)

OS 25" map (1974)

The remains of this cairn are heather-covered with several biggish boulders showing.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 9 July 1971.

Scheduled as Waulkmill, cairn 310m SE of.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 9 May 2005.

Activities

Field Visit (November 1975)

NT04NW 014 490.

This robbed cairn, situated 350m NNE of another [NT04NW 18], measures 8.0m in diameter and 0.8m in height.

RCAHMS 1978, visited November 1975

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