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Gawin Moor
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Gawin Moor
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Auchencairn Moor
Canmore ID 66032
Site Number NX99SW 32
NGR NX 9432 9135
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66032
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Closeburn
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX99SW 32 9432 9135
See also NX99SW 12-14.
(NX 94329135) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
The remains of an excavated cairn are situated some 60 yds N of that described on NX99SW 13.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912
Scott-Elliott gives its dimensions as about 50ft in diameter and 8ft high.
J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967
A cairn measuring only 7.0m diameter and 0.7m high with a small central hollow where it appears to have been dug into. There is no burial evident. These dimensions do not agree with those given by Scott- Elliot.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 5 August 1977.
Scheduled with NX99SW 12-14 as Gawin Moor, cairns, east of Auchencairn.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 January 1993.
