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Old Crawfordton
Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Old Crawfordton
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 74295
Site Number NX88NW 59
NGR NX 8171 8896
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/74295
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Glencairn
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX88NW 59 8171 8896
See also NX88NW 2.
Some 200yds NE of Old Crawfordton (NX 815 888) is the site of a large circular cairn, of which little more than a surrounding fringe of stone remains. (See NX88NW 2)
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912
Corrie (doubtless referring to the same feature) describes an enclosure, on the S side of the River Cairn, about 1/8 mile E of Old Crawfordton. It measures 66ft in diameter within a well-defined circular rampart of earth and stone now only 2ft high. an opening to the S probably marks an entrance. The central area, apart from slight heaps of stone, is flat. (see NX88NW 2)
Corrie 1920
Enclosure, NX 8170 8896 A 2m to 3m wide low stony bank encloses an area 20m N/S by 18m E/W.
J Page 1992
Field Visit (27 January 1992)
This cairn is situated at the leading edge of a broad terrace overlooking the Cairn Water and measures 24m in diameter and up to 1.2m in height. The interior has been largely removed leaving a stony rim and a hummocky interior.
The OS would appear to have misinterpreted the earlier descriptions by RCAHMS (RCAHMS 1920) and Corrie (Corrie 1910) with the homestead (NX88NW2 NX 8166 8865).
(Nith 205)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 27 January 1992.
