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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: White Cairn (Crouse)Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Wigtown
Map Ref: NX36585577
Latitude: 54.869925N Longitude: 4.548197W
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 18th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 White Cairn, Crouse: Our very last stop of this visit, and not a hugely dramatic one. The cairn has been used for field clearance, and there were lumps of concrete, barbed wire and old fence posts dumped at its western side.
Whilst I was photographing the holed stone, I got an excited cry from Andrew, to say; “You can see through the holed stone from the cairn”, so I wandered through the gate between the two fields and walked onto the cairn. Yes, he was right – there was a glimmer of light through the hole, although what it was sighted on, I’m not sure.
DrewParsons have visited here
One field North of the Hole Stone is this much dilapidated cairn which according to RCAHMS measures some 90 feet by 85 feet. Cows in the field meant I couldn't access it this time. Exact coordinates now confirmed by Drew Parsons with GPS readings in September 2010 (the cows were more friendly to this antipodean!!)
For more information see Canmore ID 62871 which simply records this is: "a grass-covered cairn measuring 28.0m N-S by 27.0m E-W and 2.0m high".
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