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Pinbreck Hill
Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Pinbreck Hill
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 63060
Site Number NX39SW 2
NGR NX 34797 93710
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63060
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Barr
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX39SW 2 3480 9371.
(NX 3480 9371) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A large cairn, 12m in diameter and 2m in maximum height, which is on the NW. It is completely turf-covered apart from a small area at the centre.
Visited by OS (JD) 15 November 1955
A cairn, as described in the previous field report, but now with a modern cairn built upon it.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 9 February 1976
Field Visit (10 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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.
Field Visit (July 1982)
Pinbreck Hill NX 348 937 NX39SW 2
On the summit of Pinbreck Hill there is an oval cairn measuring 11.8m by 10.5m and 0.8m in height.
RCAHMS 1983, visited July 1982
(Smith 1895, 209)
