White Cairn
Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name White Cairn
Classification Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 63008
Site Number NX37NW 2
NGR NX 3422 7910
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Minnigaff
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX37NW 2 3422 7910.
(NX 3422 7911) White Cairn (NR).
OS 6" map (1957)
The White Cairn is 50 feet in diameter and 7 ft high, slightly robbed on the south. There is a small circular excavation about 2 feet deep in the top but there is no evidence of a cist or chamber.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; S Piggott and T G E Powell 1951
NX 3422 7910 White Cairn survives as a partly turf-covered stony mound, 18.0m in diameter and 2.0m high. Around its base are intermittment traces of a kerb.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 1 April 1976
