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Craigbirnoch

Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Craigbirnoch

Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 61367

Site Number NX16NE 17

NGR NX 17938 69446

NGR Description Centre

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish New Luce
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX16NE 17 1794 6944.

A grass and heather-covered cairn, 36 feet in diameter and 6 feet high. It has been slightly robbed on the NW but has not been excavated.

RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911

NX 17946944. The cairn as described by RCAHMS is situated on top of a low natural knoll.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 8 March 1968

A cairn generally as described by the previous authorities. It measures 12.0m in diameter and is 1.5m high.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (BS) 5 May 1976

Not found (1:50000 survey).

Information from OS Reviser January 1985

This cairn is situated about 80m WNW of the cairn NX16NE 4. It occupies the top of a low knoll on the W side of the low-lying peat moss that flanks the Cross Water of Luce at this point, and is overlooked by the rising ground to the W. It measures 11.5m in diameter by 1.7m in height, a small quarry-pit has been dug into it on the N. The cairn is identified as an old corn-drying kiln on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 25 October 1985.

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Note (4 March 2022)

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from CAIRN (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).

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