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Conchieton
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Conchieton
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 64141
Site Number NX65SW 11
NGR NX 6388 5316
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64141
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Borgue
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX65SW 11 6388 5316.
(NX 6388 5316) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
Some 250 yds ENE of Conchieton farm, enclosed by a wall and planted with trees, is an excavated cairn, c.36' in diameter, with an exposed short cist in its centre. Forming an irregularly ring round it, except on the N where the stones have fallen, a number of large slabs have been placed, rising 1' to 1'6" above the level of the top. None are very firmly fixed. Coles and the RCAHMS record two slabs, adjacent to the cist, one of sandstone. 24" by 16", and the other, of prophyry, 24" by 12". Both slabs bear a single cup-mark; they were not found by Morris in 1965, and may be turfed over. Coles also records another cup-mark on the inner face of the W side-stone of the cist.
The cairn was carefully excavated by the farmer, Mr Gordon, in 1844; he found "a handful or two of brown and decayed bones" in the cist.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; F R Coles 1897; R W B Morris and DC Bailey 1967
Generally as described. The cup marks could not be located.
Revised at 25".
Visited by OS (RD) 21 February 1972.
