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Knowhead
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Knowhead
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 65821
Site Number NX98SE 17
NGR NX 988 818
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65821
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmahoe
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX98SE 17 988 818.
A cairn at KnoweHead on a ridge half-a-mile SW of the church at Kilblane - NX98SE 14 - and half-a- mile east of the parish church was excavated by Johnstone in July 1827, who found therin a short cist containing the burnt bones of two bodies and, to the south of the cist, a large whinstone, and the bones of a third burial "put carefully into little openings, or niches in the Cairn, a little here, and there."
The ridge is most probably that over-looking the Ballochmyle Brick Works alongside the Locharbriggs- Riddingwood road. There is now no sign of any cairn on this ridge.
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
No further information found during field investigations.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 June 1964
