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Culquhasen
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Culquhasen
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 62247
Site Number NX25SW 18
NGR NX 2443 5315
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62247
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Old Luce
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX25SW 18 2443 5315
(NX 2443 5315) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
Though the OS map indicates a cairn about 1/3 mile SE of Culquhasen, due to the cartloads of stones gathered from the fields and deposited on every rocky eminence or uncultivable spot in the neighbourhood, it was impossible to recognise it.
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911.
There are numerous rock outcrops covered by stone clearance heaps in the area, as stated by RCAHMS. The low rocky hillock at the published site is bisected by a modern east-west field wall; most of the southern half is occupied by a partially grass-covered stony mound, semi-circular in shape and up to 1.8m high. It is composed of small stone and its profile is distinctly cairn-like.
It seems likely, therefore, that this feature is the remains of a cairn that apparently measured 18.0m in diameter. Severe mutilation has destroyed any trace of the mound on the north side of the wall.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (BS) 26 April 1977.
