<< Text Pages >> Carlock Hill - Cairn in Scotland in South Ayrshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Carlock HillCountry: Scotland County: South Ayrshire Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Stranraer Nearest Village: Ballantrae
Map Ref: NX0857377233
Latitude: 55.052599N Longitude: 4.998356W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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markj99 visited on 6th Feb 2023 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Many people speed past this small conical hill W of the A77, but it is a short scramble up a steep slope to a 360° panoramic view.
There is a ruined cairn on the summit of Carlock Hill, c. 3.5 miles S of Ballantrae in South Ayrshire. The remains of the cairn are located c. 0.5 miles NE of the N end of Glen App.
Carlock Hill Cairn stones were used to construct dry stane dykes in the 19th Century according to Canmore ID 60852. Canmore also states that "human bones of enormous size (Name Book 1856) were found" during the robbing.
A dry stane dyke, running on a NNE-SSW Axis, bisects the original footprint of Carlock Hill Cairn. The N & W quadrants of the cairn have been erased, leaving a grassy semicircle in the E & S quadrants. The semicircle, which measures c. 7 yards in radius is delineated by an outer grassy bank. This bank measures c. 3 feet wide by up to 1 foot high. The flat interior of the semicircle has patches of reeds on a grassy surface.
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