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High Lessons Cairn

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name High Lessons Cairn

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 63433

Site Number NX46NW 14

NGR NX 4224 6537

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Minnigaff
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

Archaeology Notes

NX46NW 14 4224 6537.

(NX 42246537) High Lessons Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

A large round cairn about 70ft in diameter and about 2ft high. The chamber or cist has probably been destroyed.

RCAHMS 1914

This cairn is almost completely destroyed, only the grass-covered rubble base, 0.3m high, remaining. Its name is not known locally.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (EGC) 15 October 1966

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