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Auchmantle Fell, The Muckle Cairn
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auchmantle Fell, The Muckle Cairn
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 61691
Site Number NX16SW 12
NGR NX 1454 6365
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61691
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX16SW 12 1454 6365.
(NX 1454 6365) Muckle Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1979)
The Muckle Cairn, so called to distinguish it from the Wee Cairn (NX16SW 13), 'stood where Auchmantle Trig Station stands ... Nearly all the stones have been removed ... and in removing them about 30 years ago, an urn was taken out of a 'cell' which contained fragments of burnt bones and cinders'. (NB. In the case of the Wee Cairn, 'cell' = cist).
Name Book 1846
A small cairn, 4.8m in diameter, only the foundation of which exists, surmounted and almost obliterated by a modern cairn.
Surveyed at 1:10000.
Visited by OS (JP) 4 May 1976
All that remains of the Muckle Cairn, which stood on the summit of Auchmantle Fell, is a thin spread of stones about 17m in diameter. At the centre a modern marker cairn stands on a low mound measuring 5m in diameter by 0.3m in height. When the cairn was removed in about 1816 a cist containing a cremation accompanied by an 'urn' was found.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 14 May 1986
