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Latitude: 54.9641 / 54°57'50"N
Longitude: -4.9024 / 4°54'8"W
OS Eastings: 214289
OS Northings: 567127
OS Grid: NX142671
Mapcode National: GBR GH8L.959
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.NHQ9
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,shieling 500m SW of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5105
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: shieling
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This shieling hut lies amongst the small craigs roughly midway between Cairnerzean Farm and Cairnerzean Fell and roughly 70m NW of a similar shieling. It is covered with close cropped grass and moss. The area proposed for scheduling is a 30m square centred on co- ordinates 14296713. This will include the monument and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its use and construction may survive. The area is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because with its close neighbour it forms part of a group of such structures scattered amongst pre-improvement farms between Cairnerzean Fell and the Main Water of Luce which together can provide important evidence to enhance understanding of the pre-improvement use and layout of the landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 32.
This project appears as no. 381 in the East Rhins List.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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