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Latitude: 54.94 / 54°56'24"N
Longitude: -4.8211 / 4°49'15"W
OS Eastings: 219389
OS Northings: 564238
OS Grid: NX193642
Mapcode National: GBR 42.ZS8H
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.X3F7
Entry Name: Hardcroft,cairn 950m SE of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4898
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a burial cairn of the neolithic or Bronze Age situated on the W side of an old field of rig-and-furrow cultivation. Measuring 13m in diameter and up to 0.4m high, the upper cairn matrix has been robbed but the more important base survives intact. The area to be scheduled includes the cairn and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. The area measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a burial cairn of the Neolithic or Bronze Age which has the potential to increase considerably our understanding of prehistoric funerary and ritual practices. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other burial cairns in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 94.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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