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Balannan
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balannan
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) White Hill
Canmore ID 64497
Site Number NX75NW 2
NGR NX 7029 5905
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64497
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Tongland
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX75NW 2 7029 5905.
(NX 7029 5906) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
The base of a cairn consisting of a grassy rim full of embedded stones, mostly small and irregularly placed. It is about 44ft in diameter. Not shown on OS map.
F R Coles 1895
There are two cairns at Balannan, neither of which is shown on the OS map.
F R Coles 1895
The cairn at NX 7029 5905 is generally as described by Coles except that it is about 18.0m in diameter, height 1.0m.
The second cairn was not located. There are numerous mounds on Balannan farm, mostly natural (a few stone-clearance), and, although the farmer knows of the cairn described by Coles, he has no knowledge of any others.
Revised at 25".
Visited by OS (EGC) 9 August 1968.
