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Photo Pages: Cairnholy 1 - Chambered Tomb in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway
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Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 18 January 2004 Page Views: 8329
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 Site Name: Cairnholy 1 Alternate Name: Carnholy I, Carn Holy, Cairn Holy
Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Gatehouse of Fleet Nearest Village: Creetown
Map Ref: NX51785389 Landranger Map Number: 83
Latitude: 54.857782N Longitude: 4.310586W
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 | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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 | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 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 | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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This chambered tomb in the Clyde Cairn tradition is composed of two chambers, although the one to the rear would not have been accessible due to the large blocking stone in front of it. This rear chamber may have been the original feature on the site with the front chamber, portal stones and concave facade added at a later date.
This is an absolutely fantastic site, easily accessed by driving along the signposted track from the A75. Cairnholy II lies a little further up the track leading to the B & B.
A stunning site, well worth a visit.
Note: Photo © Anthony Weir
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by AngieLake
Here's a more complicated ritual movement dowsing pattern. I completed one before walking uphill to dowse Cairn Holy II. When I returned I dowsed a second pattern. They're overlaid, but the numbering of moves are in either red or black, according to ritual. Interesting how the red one approaches the burial cist from the sides, whereas the black one goes to the entrance. Have seen evidence in
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by TimFromHoveActually
Cairn Holy I looking down into the sealed rear chamber
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by TimFromHoveActually
Cairn Holy I from a third of the way along the monument looking back towards the forecourt. This gives an indication of the length of the monument.
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by wolfnighthunter
Cairnholy 1 - cist cover with cup and ring carvings.
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by wolfnighthunter
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 Cairnholy 1 submitted by wolfnighthunter
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 Cairnholy 1 submitted by nicoladidsbury
Cairn Holy Portal Stone - possible rock carvings
This photo shows the carvings/striations/gouges in close up detail - but are they human made, natural, or natural enhanced?
This is only one area of these markings, there are more further down the stone. The gouges on this face are roundish, the one on the front face are longer
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by nicoladidsbury
Cairn Holy Portal Stone - possible rock carvings
The carvings/striations/gouges are on the right hand side portal stone, moving upwards in a clockwise rising spiral
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by bobc
Cairn Holy II and Wigtown Bay 2004.
 Cairnholy 1 submitted by andy_h
Cairn holy from the car park!
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Re: Cairnholy I (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Tuesday, 25 September 2001
(User Info | Send a Message) | Stay at the Carnholy Farmhouse just feet from Carnholy II
http://www.dalbeattie.com/cairnholy/ | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Cairnholy I (Score: 1)
by nicoladidsbury on Tuesday, 18 January 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | Information on the notice board at the Cairnholy I site
On this gently sloping hill above Kirkdale Glen are the two chambered tombs we know as Cairnholy I and II.
Tombs for the ancestors were important to the early farming communities that lived here in the neolithic period between 6000 and 4000 years ago.
The two tombs are essentially very similar, built to the same basic design but with important differences. This one is altogether more elaborate. They may not have been built at exactly the same time but they were certainly in use at the same time for at least part of their long lives as burial places. It is tempting to see this tomb at the focus for ceremonies, while the other functioned simply as a repository for the dead. Their chambers are very similar but here there is a magnificent curving facade of standing stones that forms the backcloth to a forecourt in front of the tomb.
The chambers of both tombs consist of an inner and an outer compartment. It is odd that the inner compartment was built as a box, closed and inaccessible from the outer one. It is thought that the inner chambers were the original tombs and that the out chambers, and the facade and forecourt here, were added later.
Little is known about the burials themselves for the acid soil conditions dissolved almost all the bones before the tombs were excavated in 1949. But objects buried with the dead survived, highlighting the surprisingly long-distance contacts of these primitive people. One item in particular was quite exotic - part of an axe made from jadeite, found in the outer chamber here. Jateite is a beautiful green stone that was imported from a source in the Alps, and jadeite axes were clearly prestigious objects reflecting the power and wealth of their owners.
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Re: Cairnholy I (Score: 1)
by rockartuk on Tuesday, 18 November 2008
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hi there,
A spiral on the portal stone? I've never seen nor heard of it. Was it a "recent" carving or a (very) faint one? A photo -or drawing- would be very helpful!
Thanks for posting this experience!
Cheers,
Jan
British Rock Art Collection
http://www.rockartuk.fotopic.net
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Re: Cairnholy I (Score: 1)
by nicoladidsbury on Tuesday, 18 November 2008
(User Info | Send a Message) | Rock Art at Cairn Holy
I visited Cairn Holy on Sunday, and met a guy who showed us a cup and ring rock carving, very erroded and difficult to see, but most definately there. Then we noticed a strange spiral of "carving" on the right hand "portal" stone - has anyone else noticed these carvings before? | [ Reply to This ]
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