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Eyes Of Craigbirnoch
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Eyes Of Craigbirnoch
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 61814
Site Number NX17SE 3
NGR NX 16793 70000
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61814
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish New Luce
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX17SE 3 1679 7000.
(NX 1678 7000) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1977)
A cairn, 50 feet in diameter, with a hollow in the centre suggesting it has been excavated, but no cist is exposed.
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911
This cairn measures 16.5m in diameter and 1.0m high. It is otherwise as described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JP) 27 April 1976
This cairn is inconspicuously sited on a terrace on the E flank of the Eyes of Craigbirnoch 200m W of the railway line. It measures about 16m in diameter by 1.2m in maximum height, but it has been scarred by surface quarrying and a large pit has been dug into its centre. Immediately S of the cairn there are three smaller mounds of stones: they measure 3.7m, 2.8m and 4m in diameter respectively, the largest being 0.5m in height. From the largest there are traces of a stony bank about 1.5m thick extending round the W side of the cairn some 12m from its edge. The date and purpose of these external features are unknown, but the materials for their construction may well have been derived from the large cairn.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 6 April 1986.
Note (8 November 2021)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from CAIRN (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).
