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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Spittal Croft cairn Alternative Name: Boreland CairnCountry: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Wigtown Nearest Village: Causeway End
Map Ref: NX35645800 Landranger Map Number: 83
Latitude: 54.889637N Longitude: 4.564101W
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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Anne T visited on 17th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Boreland Cairn: By this time of the afternoon (early evening) I was getting more than a little ‘cairned-out’ having seen, and still trying to make sense of, all those cairns at Torhousekie. But this was a lovely little cairn, complete with sheep warming themselves by the small piles of stones on top of the cairn.
With rain threatening and the dark clouds feeling as if they were virtually overhead, we walked some way up and down both sides of the road, both the B733 and the minor road running between the B733 and the B7052, but could find no gate into the field, so photographed the cairn as best I could from the dry stone wall.
We did go further up the road to find the standing stones and cairn at NX 3522 5808 and NX 3528 5819 (Canmore 62860 and 62849 respectively), but the field was jam-packed full of cattle.
markj99 visited on 15th Sep 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 It is easy to park at a road junction just beyond Spittal Croft Cairn. The low circle in the flat pasture is not spectacular but it was obviously more impressive before its near destruction. Sometimes it is better to to have a footprint of a cairn than an over-reconstructed monument.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 3 Access: 4
This stoney cairn can be seen at NX35645800 just NE of a property called Spittal Croft (the cairn maybe called something different locally). It is located at a road junction. It is one of a cluster of monuments in the area including another cairn (White Cairn) a fort and a stone pair.
For more information see Canmore ID 62870 which simply describes this cairns as "The grass-covered remains of a cairn measuring 25.0m in diameter and 0.7m high. There is no sign of a trench on the S side, the surrounding land having been ploughed right up to the edge of the cairn."
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