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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Auld Wife's Grave Alternative Name: 'A Rock Called The Witche's Grave'Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Stranraer Nearest Village: New Luce
Map Ref: NX13536498 Landranger Map Number: 82
Latitude: 54.944520N Longitude: 4.912882W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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 |
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markj99 visited on 6th Nov 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 1 Auld Wife's Grave is difficult to find in open moorland. However, if you can get to Cairnscarrow Trig Point at NX 13626 64802 there is a clear path bearing NNW from here. Follow it for c. 200m straight to Auld Wife's Grave.
This site is recorded as Canmore ID 61688, the latest entry of which says: "The remains of what is probably a chambered cairn are situated 200m NNW of the OS Triangulation Station on the summit of Cairnscarrow. The cairn measures about 9m in diameter, but has been reduced to maximum of 0.6m in height. The chamber, which is aligned from NE to SW appears to have been created from a natural rock formation. The NW side is probably a rock outcrop, measuring 3.8m in length by between 0.5m and 1.1m in thickness and 0.65m and 0.9m in height. The slab forming the SE side, which measures 2.4m by 0.5m and up to 0.7m in height, may have been split off the rock outcrop, the resulting chamber tapering from 0.6m in breadth at the top to between 0.3m and 0.4m at the bottom. The NE end of the chamber, which lies about 2.4m within the edge of the cairn, is formed by a slab measuring 1.3m by 0.3m and 0.65m in height."
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