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Balnab
Barrow(S) (Early Medieval)(Possible), Long Cist (Early Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Balnab
Classification Barrow(S) (Early Medieval)(Possible), Long Cist (Early Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 61701
Site Number NX16SW 21
NGR NX 12955 60139
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61701
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX16SW 21 12956 60140
Cropmarks on an air photograph reveal at least two ring-ditches 870m SE of Balnab. The westernmost has a diameter of about 5m within a narrow ditch; the other measures about 7m in diameter within a ditch 2m in breadth and has an entrance on the SE. Between them there are at least eleven close-set parallel marks from 3m to 4m in length of unknown significance.
RCAHMS 1987
The larger of the two ring-ditches described by RCAHMS in 1987 is plotted on a distribution map of henge monuments and penannular ring-ditches covering southern Scotland (RCAHMS 1997, 116, fig. 111).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG), 30 September 1997
The ten or eleven close-set parallel marks lying between the ring-ditches are probably rows of dug graves or long cists, lying NE-SW.
Information from RCAHMS (DCC) 13 November 2008
Aerial Photographic Transcription (23 November 2011)
Note (6 June 2022)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from FIELD BOUNDARY(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), LONG CIST CEMETERY (EARLY MEDIEVAL)(POSSIBLE), RING DITCH(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).
