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Cairngarroch
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cairngarroch
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cass Burn
Canmore ID 60986
Site Number NX13NW 25
NGR NX 14374 35808
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60986
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmaiden
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX13NW 25 14374 35808
NX 143 359. The 8' - 10' wide ditch of a circular enclosure, 100' in diameter, on the W side of Cass Burn, 600 yds NE of Cairngarroch, is visible on APs (106G/Scot/UK 89: 3115-6). At the time of visit, when
the site was in pasture, the greater part of the circuit of the ditch was revealed by a belt of clover growing in the filling.
RCAHMS TS 9 July 1953
NX 1438 3580. There is no trace of this enclosure on the ground.
Site surveyed at 1:2500 from APs.
Visited by OS (DWR) 31 January 1972
Vertical air photographs have revealed the site of an oval enclosure 550m NE of Cairngarroch farmhouse. The enclosure is situated on a low rise flanked by shallow gullies on the SE and W; at the date of visit the field was under pasture, but the position of the ditch was indicated by a 2.4m broad green band in the parched grass. The interior measures 31m from NE to SW by 29m transversely and a 5m wide gap in the green mark on the ENE may indicate the entrance.
RCAHMS 1985, visited (SH) July 1984
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (9 July 1953)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, are available to view online - see the searchable PDF in 'Digital Items'. These vary from short notes, to lengthy and full descriptions. Contemporary plane-table surveys and inked drawings, where available, can be viewed online in most cases - see 'Digital Images'. The original typecripts, notebooks and drawings can also be viewed in the RCAHMS search room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 19 July 2013.
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (14 November 2011)
