Mull Of Sinniness
Burial Cairn (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mull Of Sinniness
Classification Burial Cairn (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 62256
Site Number NX25SW 26
NGR NX 2277 5175
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Old Luce
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX25SW 26 2277 5175
See also NX25SW 25.
There were two large cairns in the immediate vicinity of where cross- slab NX25SW 25 was found.
G Wilson 1876.
A cist, which contained a large urn, is in the ruins of a large circular cairn at the W side of the old Port William road, above the farm-steading of Mull of Sinniness.
G Wilson 1889.
(OS 6" (Prov) 1957 shows Cairn (NAT) at NX 2277 5175, and Cairn (NR) (site of) at NX 2267 5202 - see NX25SW 14.)
(Undated) information in OS records.
There is no trace of a cairn at the published site. At NX 2277 5175 is an outcrop of rock with modern stone clearance dumped upon it; there are many other similar features in this area.
Visited by OS May 1977.
