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Cordorcan Burn

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Cordorcan Burn

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Dalvaird

Canmore ID 63581

Site Number NX47SW 4

NGR NX 4076 7299

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

NX47SW 4 4076 7299.

(NX 4076 7299) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

A cairn apparently unexcavated, 37ft in diameter and 3ft high.

RCAHMS 1914

Situated on rising ground and surrounded by relatively modern field walls and clearance is a partially grass-covered cairn. It measures 12.0m N/S by 11.0m with a maximum height of 1.0m and has a modern cairn built upon it.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (SFS) 16 February 1976.

Scheduled as Dalvaird, cairn.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 20 June 2002.

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