Cairn More
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cairn More
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Barncorkrie, Cairn Fell
Canmore ID 61002
Site Number NX13NW 4
NGR NX 10333 36130
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61002
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmaiden
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX13NW 4 1033 3612.
(Name: NX 1032 3613) Cairn More (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
This is supposed by some to have been a cairn, and by others to have been a fort. Nothing now remains except a small pile of stones on the top of Cairn Fell, the stone having all been taken away for building purposes.
Name Book 1848
On top of a rocky knoll are the remains of a cairn c.14.5m in diameter and up to 0.7m high. No kerbing or internal hollows are visible due to robbing and other disturbance. A modern cairn overlies the cairn material on the W. Name confirmed.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 31 January 1972
A heavily robbed cairn, measuring about 16m in diameter, is situated on the summit of Cairn Fell. The centre of the cairn is scarred with quarry pits but its edge is almost entire, varying from a stony scarp 0.6m high on the E to a scatter of stones on the N and a slight lip up to 0.4m high around the W. At the centre some of the mounds of debris stand about 0.7m high, but in other places the cairn material has been entirely removed. On the WNW the modern marker cairn has been built on the cairn.
RCAHMS 1985, visited (SH) July 1984
Note (23 November 2021)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from CAIRN (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).
