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Half Merk Burn
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Half Merk Burn
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 62501
Site Number NX28NE 1
NGR NX 28286 86089
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62501
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Barr
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX28NE 1 2828 8610.
(NX 2828 8610) Cairn (NR).
OS 6" map (1957)
Several small clusters of stones are spread over the site but it is not possible to define the perimeter of a cairn.
Visited by OS (JD) 4 October 1955
NX 2828 8610. A robbed, but well-defined, cairn 10.0m in diameter and 0.7m maximum height.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 7 January 1976
Field Visit (11 October 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Note (1981)
Half Merk Burn NX 282 861 NX28NE 1
A robbed cairn, measuring about 10m in diameter, is situated at the head of the Half Merk Burn; the area is now afforested.
RCAHMS 1981
(MS notes in NMRS, RCAHMS Emergency Surveys)
