High Moor
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name High Moor
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 62228
Site Number NX25SE 36
NGR NX 2948 5024
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62228
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Mochrum
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX25SE 36 2948 5024.
A cairn planned by D Phillips, but located only to 'NW of High Moor' (NX 296 500).
Information from A E Truckell, Dumfries Museum, 1968.
NX 2948 5024. Levelled into a small knoll at the foot of a NW-facing slope is a hut circle of 9.5m internal diameter. Occasional facing stones are visible but it is not possible to obtain an accurate wall width. There is an entrance gap 1.0m wide in the SE quadrant.
Extending north for 600m and occupying level ground and the lower slopes of the hill are as many as sixty clearance cairns. The area is bracken covered and it is not possible to recognize any field walls or lynchets. The plan of this hut, erroneously called a cairn, probably dates from 1942 when the Marquis of Bute excavated a number of sites in this area. Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 15 July 1976
