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<< Our Photo Pages >> Clash Wood Cairn - Round Cairn in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway

Submitted by Anonymous on Saturday, 20 October 2018  Page Views: 1154

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clash Wood Cairn
Country: 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:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Clash Wood Cairn
Clash Wood Cairn submitted by SumDoood : The cairn. About 150m S of the church looking SSE from the timber extraction track. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Clash Wood Cairn
Clash Wood Cairn submitted by SumDoood : The walling which runs roughly N-S on the west side of the chamber. The main flat slab is vertical below the yellow box. The wall seems to be about 2m in length. To the north, after a break of 10 or so metres, i.e probably outside what one would expect to be the limits of the cairn, remains of one line of similar walling, similarly aligned, can be seen. My impression was that it is not as hi... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clash Wood Cairn
Clash Wood Cairn submitted by SumDoood : South-ish from the chamber. It would be tidy if the end slab ran E-W, but it seems to be 10-15° N of E. (I am unable *not* to look for alignments and found myself wanting the slab's southern side to be perpendicular to South, i.e. the Isle of Man, but my imaginary perpendicular seems to miss the E edge of the IoM and to be heading to the top of Snowdon (which is 124 straight mls away)... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clash Wood Cairn
Clash Wood Cairn submitted by SumDoood : Much foreshortened in this view, this is the upright slab at the S end of the chamber. (I had cautiously removed a lot of moss from it). It is about 1m high (measured from the current floor level), but might well be as high as the end stones of the chamber at Cairnholy 1. Note the slope which runs up across this slab at c. 45° from the lower left side. The stone at the W end of the chamber at Cai... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clash Wood Cairn
Clash Wood Cairn submitted by SumDoood : I *think* this is the west side of the chamber. I've included this view because it seems to me that between the yellow lines is a slab(s) which might have collapsed inward from forming one long vertical side of the chamber. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clash Wood Cairn
Clash Wood Cairn submitted by SumDoood : Cairnholy 2 from Clash Wood Cairn (Vote or comment on this photo)

Clash Wood Cairn
Clash Wood Cairn submitted by SumDoood : Cairnholy 1 from Clash Wood Cairn. In a few more years these views will be lost for another 20-30yrs or more due to the dense planting of fast growing conifers.

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