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Cairnscarrow, Cairn Kenny
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cairnscarrow, Cairn Kenny
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Little Larg
Canmore ID 61508
Site Number NX16NW 5
NGR NX 13598 65350
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61508
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX16NW 5 1360 6534.
(NX 1360 6534) Cairn Kenny (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
The site of an old cairn most of whose stones were removed to build walls about 1807.
Name Book 1847
At this point is a large hollow 21.0m in diameter and 1.0m deep. This appears to be another example of the complete removal of a cairn followed by quarrying of the site.
(See also NX16NW 4 and NX16NW 14 )
Visited by OS (JP) 29 April 1976
A robbed cairn is visible in the bottom of a hollow in the peat on the crest of Cairnscarrow, 530m N of the OS triangulation station that marks the summit. The cairn measures about 17m in diameter but little more than a rim of cairn material about 0.3m high and a scatter of stones now survives. On the NNE there is a large block of stone on the perimeter of the cairn. The cairn was reduced to its present state in about 1807.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 14 May 1985.
Note (30 November 2021)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from CAIRN (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).
