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Loch Head, Elrig

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Loch Head, Elrig

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 62701

Site Number NX34NW 1

NGR NX 3277 4924

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Mochrum
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX34NW 1 3277 4924

(NX 3277 4924) Cairn (NR).

OS 6" map (1957)

The remains of a cairn, about 45' in diameter, now reduced to 2' in height.

RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911

Situated on a small knoll is a grass-covered cairn measuring 17.5m N-S, 17.0m E-W and 1.1m high.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (TRG), 6 July 1976.

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