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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Machermore Cairns Alternative Name: CulroyCountry: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Wigtown
Map Ref: NX247544
Latitude: 54.853605N Longitude: 4.732272W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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markj99 visited on 14th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 The Machermore cairn should be called Culroy Cairn as it is on Culroy farmland. A Canmore search for Culroy will find these cairns.
The cairn is almost perfectly preserved except for some exposed stones on the E flank. It's location in a flat field elevates this cairn into my top 10.
I found the cairn to the E, however it is covered by whins and in a poor condition.
Culroy White Cairn lies 100 yards of the Y junction at Culroy farm around 1/2 mile up the road.
I have plans to revisit to sort out the remaining cairns. Canmore's 1911 visit seems to have been over enthusiastic in it's cairn nominations.
Cairnfield containing five cairns.
For more information see:
Canmore ID 62199 for clearance cairn at NX 2503 5437;
Canmore ID 62260 for cairn at NX 2470 5445;
Canmore ID 62271 for a cairn at NX 2490 5438 [note: this site has its own site page, see SID 51983: Culroy Cairn 1];
Canmore ID 62282 for a cairn at NX 2490 5424; and
Canmore ID 62231 [note: this cairn has its own site page, see Culroy Farm Cairn].
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