Glenterrow
Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Glenterrow
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 61689
Site Number NX16SW 10
NGR NX 14508 62559
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX16SW 10 1450 6256.
(NX 14516256) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
An old cairn almost completely robbed and with nothing remarkable about it.
Name Book 1846
This turf-covered cairn survives as a raised stony rim 20.3m in diameter and 0.4m high.
Surveyed at 1:10000.
Visited by OS (JP) 4 May 1976
(NX 1450 6255) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1979)
The remains of this cairn consist of a circular, stony bank, about 20 yds in diameter, broken by a track across it, in the corner of a grass field. Its interior contains stony patches, and a large boulder lies on its NW side.
J Murray 1981
This cairn is situated in the corner of a field 50m NW of the Standing Stones of Glenterrow (NX16SW 8). It measures about 18.5m in diameter
but has been reduced to little more than a ring of cairn material up to 0.5m high. There is a broad gap through the edge of the cairn on the NE.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 2 July 1985
Note (26 January 2022)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from CAIRN (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).
