Rorie Gill's Cairn, Drannandow
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rorie Gill's Cairn, Drannandow
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 63582
Site Number NX47SW 5
NGR NX 4079 7117
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63582
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Minnigaff
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX47SW 5 4079 7117.
(NX 4079 7117) Rorie Gill's Cairn (NAT)
OS 6" map (1957)
A round cairn of loose boulders and small stones, 46ft in diameter and about 3ft in maximum height, turfed-over and surmounted by a small modern cairn.
A J H Edwards 1923
It was excavated by Edwards in 1922, who identified structural features within the cairn as well as two cists, one of them central, and therefore presumably primary, containing a food vessel. The other contained only fragments of a food vessel.
Rory Gill was a free-booter, one of several who are traditionally said to have been executed at the Thieves' Stones (NX47SW 2) in the reign of David II (1329-71). Both food vessels are in the NMAS.
M Harper 1896; D D A Simpson 1965
The remains of a cairn measuring 14.0m in diameter and 1.0m high. The centre has been completely removed leaving a level interior 8.0m in diameter, in which there is a cist 1.1m by 0.8m by 0.6m high. In the S side of the cairn is a stone-filled depression that may have contained a second cist.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (SFS) 18 February 1976
