Dalquhairn
Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Dalquhairn
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 71382
Site Number NX39NW 1
NGR NX 32026 96067
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71382
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Barr
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX39NW 1 3203 9606
(NX 3203 9606) Dalquhairn Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1958)
A large, turf-covered cairn of stones, 33m in diameter and 1.5m in maximum height, which has been considerably mutilated, especially by a small quarry on the NW.
Visited by OS (JLD) 17 October 1955
Situated in a low lying arable field this much robbed cairn is generally as described above.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (SFS) 21 January 1976
Field Visit (7 September 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (July 1982)
Dalquhairn NX 320 960 NX39NW 1
A heavily quarried cairn, measuring 33m in diameter by a maximum of 1.1m in height, occupies a low rise 180m SSW of Dalquhairn farmhouse.
RCAHMS 1983, visited July 1982
(Name Book, Ayrshire, No. 9, p. 12)
