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Fellend

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Fellend

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 65974

Site Number NX99NW 16

NGR NX 93013 97713

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Closeburn
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Nithsdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NX99NW 16 9301 9771.

(NX 9301 9771) Tumulus (OE)

OS 6" map (1900)

Small Cairn, Fellend: On the upper side of the road, about 350 yds SE of Fellend farmhouse is a small cairn with a diameter of 24' and an elevation of 2'. It is unexcavated.

RCAHMS 1920

A grass-covered round cairn measuring 7.6m in diameter by 1.0m in height

Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 August 1959

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Field Visit (7 June 1912)

Small Cairn, Fellend.

On the upper side of the road from Townhead to Mitchellslacks, about 350 yards to the east by south of Fellend, is a small cairn with a diameter of 24 feet and an elevation of 2 feet. It has not been excavated. It lies at an altitude of nearly 1000 feet over sea-level.

RCAHMS 1920, visited 7 June 1912

OS 6” map xxiii.SW

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