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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cairnderry - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway

Submitted by enkidu41 on Wednesday, 25 February 2004  Page Views: 7110

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cairnderry
Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Newton Stewart  Nearest Village: Bargrennan
Map Ref: NX31597993  Landranger Map Number: 76
Latitude: 55.085147N  Longitude: 4.640071W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Cairnderry submitted by mickm : View of the cairn looking eastsoutheast up the passage to the northeast chamber. The south chamber is visible to top left and the outline of the 2002 excavations in the quadrant around the northwest chamber can be made out at the top of the picture. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Dumfries & Galloway

A Bargrennan group chambered round cairn in Dumfries & Galloway, just north of the A714 and the River Cree and just west of Goat Burn. Situated in a forest clearing this ruined and robbed cairn has been reduce to a more or less turf-covered platform up to 3' high. The cairn had a probable diameter of 75' and comprised 3, radially set, chambers.

A stone on the inside of the S chamber contains 'cupmarks' which are suspiciously clear deep and almost certainly due to weathering. On the W side are 4 boulders and on the SE side 1 stone, the 5 being the probable survivors of a peristalith. One of these also contains suspicious cupmarks. Excavations in 2003 has shown that the chamber was not constructed with earthfast stones but sat on 'cushion' stones placed directly on the surface of the ground. The excavations also suggested that there was a substantial passage leading from the S chamber. A line of stones running N from 135' NW of the chamber is probably the remains of a wall. Earlier reports also suggested that there was another line of earthfast stones 68' away from the NE chamber but this could not be identified in 1962.

In 2002 a survey and preliminary excavation were carried out by the universities of Cardiff and Manchester, the report of which can be found at Canmore ID 63003 
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Cairnderry submitted by rogerkread : Another view of the currently bleakly exposed Cairnderry. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cairnderry
Cairnderry submitted by rogerkread : As you can see the forestry has been largely cleared. Cairnderry is well signposted off the main road and you can park beside it. However, it is not a very inspiring site at the moment, a bleak jumbled pile of stones to my eyes. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cairnderry submitted by durhamnature : Plan of the cairn from "Report of Commission on Monuments...Galloway" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cairnderry submitted by durhamnature : Photo of cairn from "Report of Commission on Monuments...Galloway" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cairnderry
Cairnderry submitted by mickm : Cairnderry is a three chambered round cairn of Bargrennan type, situated about 100 metres along a forestry track off the A714 at 155 metres above sea level. The cairn is built on a low rise on ground sloping down to the River Cree to the southwest. This is a view looking north into the south chamber with its probable fallen capstone. The northwest and northeast chambers are behind. This photograph... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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From cairn to cemetery: an archaeological investigation of Cairnderry and Bargrennan by Andy B on Sunday, 15 March 2015
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From cairn to cemetery: an archaeological investigation of the chambered cairns and early Bronze Age mortuary deposits at Cairnderry and Bargrennan White Cairn, south-west Scotland. Vicki Cummings with Chris Fowler

During this chapter we outline the result of the excavations at Cairnderry which were conducted between 2002 and 2004. The full details of the artefacts found, the environmental analysis, the radiocarbon determinations, and so on, can be found in the appendices, along with other specialists' reports. Here, in outlining the results of excavation and post-excavation analysis, we relate what was discovered as a result of our excavations at the cairn, and what this suggests about Cairnderry as a distinctive place in the prehistoric landscape.

Cairnderry sits at the centre of the known distribution of Bargrennan monuments. It consists of three chambers and passages set within a round cairn. The site is located on the side of a valley on the edge of Glengruboch Moor at 155m OD, above the River Cree (grid reference NX316 799). The site is presently on Forestry Enterprise land in the heart of the Galloway forest. At the time of excavation the monument was closely surrounded by trees on all sides, but these were harvested in 2005. The present view from the site remains entirely restricted by dense forestry to the east and south, however you can now see out over the landscape to the north and west, which looks out over gently undulating terrain with view towards Brecklach Hill. The site is now covered with grasses.

To the east the site is clipped by a forest track and to the south is the A714, from which the site is now visible. It is positioned close to a stream, Goat Burn, and is located on a natural rise in the landscape, and the body of the cairn seems to fully incorporate the prominence of this knoll. Prior to excavation the extent of the cairn was unclear, but it is now evident that the diameter of the cairn is roughly 25m across west to east.

Prior to excavation, the monument was a large grassy mound covered with dense vegetation (mainly grasses and bracken), with a forestry road running immediately to the east of the mound. It was impossible to define the edge of the cairn, although it was clear that the monument had been heavily disturbed in the past.

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Re: Cairnderry by marcusb2000 on Thursday, 06 November 2003
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Excavations in the summers of 2002 and 2003 have revealed the extent and structure of the cairn. It has three robbed passage chambers, a curb (rare for these monuments of the Bargrennan group), and a series of later pits around the curb containing cremations and other finds of interest. The analysis is still in progress, but a report may be found at http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/vc/cdy/cairnderry.html
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