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Auchmantle Fell, The Wee Cairn
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auchmantle Fell, The Wee Cairn
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 61692
Site Number NX16SW 13
NGR NX 1452 6353
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX16SW 13 1452 6353.
(NX 1452 6353) Wee Cairn (NR).
OS 6" map (1957)
The Wee Cairn, so called to distinguish it from the Muckle Cairn (NX16SW 12), has 'been nearly destroyed, the stones having been removed. In the centre is partly an opening which probably leads into a 'cell''.
Name Book 1846
A cist existed in the centre of this cairn until about 1911 when the slabs were removed for building purposes. (NB. RCAHMS transpose the descriptions of NX16SW 12 and NX16SW 13 ).
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911
No trace of this cairn survives.
Visited by OS (JP) 4 May 1976
Little remains of the Wee Cairn, which stood 120m S of the Muckle Cairn on sloping ground on the SE flank of Auchmantle Fell. Measuring about 17.5m in diameter, it has been reduced to a rim of cairn material enclosing a spread of stones; on the NW the rim is 0.4m high. At the centre there is a rectangular pit measuring 1.1m from NNE to SSW by 0.6m transversely; it may indicate the position of a cist but the visible slabs around the edge of the pit are all laid horizontally.
The cairn appears to have reached its present state by 1846, when the Name Book noted that 'in the centre is partly an opening which probably leads into a cell'. The Inventory however, which refers to this cairn as the Muckle Cairn, records that a cist had been removed 'quite recently'. In view of this confusion it is more probable that the cist was removed from the cairn on the summit of Auchmantle Fell, where a cist was discovered about 1816.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 16 July 1986
