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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clash Wood CairnCountry: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Round Cairn
Nearest Town: Newton Stewart Nearest Village: Carsluith
Map Ref: NX5117853862
Latitude: 54.857351N Longitude: 4.319942W
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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Round Cairn in Dumfries and Galloway
Much damaged and continuing to suffer from felling and uprooting of windblown trees and neglectful replanting of a conifer plantation, this cairn is alongside a deeply rutted timber extraction route. I first came across it c. 2012-13 very late one very wet evening. I returned 16.10.18. Despite my clear memory of what I'd seen, it took a little while to locate the site.
Even if using GPS, I suggest you start near to "Kirkdale Church" then walk almost S into the plantation for c. 150m along the timber extraction route. It's not easy going.
A vaguely cairn-shaped mound will be seen on your left. Near to the top of this much damaged mound, a little further E than you might expect, is a slightly incongruous-looking short neat drystone wall, a mainly stone-filled single chamber beyond it, and a large, flat, thin, upright slab at the S end of the chamber. Once low down inside, you will notice another large thin slab which I assume formed the west side of the chamber. It seems the chamber is aligned quite close to N-S. The total structure is c. 550m due WEST of Cairnholy 1.
I can find no record of this cairn elsewhere.
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