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Greens Moor

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Greens Moor

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 48908

Site Number NT04NW 5

NGR NT 0205 4941

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 (1973 - 1979)

NT04NW 5 0205 4941.

(A: NT 0203 4943; B: NT 0213 4938) Cairns (NR)

(For Cairn B, see NT04NW 16)

OS 1:50000 map (1976)

When seen in 1973, this cairn was as described by the RCAHMS.

Visited by OS (JP) 7 February 1973

NT 0205 4941. A cairn as described by the RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (BS) 20 February 1979.

Activities

Field Visit (25 June 1943)

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.

Field Visit (October 1975)

NT 020 494. Cairn I, Greens Moor. Lying approximately 900 m ENE of Waulkmill farmhouse , this cairn appears as a grass-covered stony mound, roughly circular on plan, measuring 13·4 m in diameter and 0·6 m in height. The centre has been extensively disturbed by stone-robbing.

RCAHMS 1978, visited October 1975.

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