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Submitted by markj99 on Friday, 26 October 2018  Page Views: 4833

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stiddrig Alternative Name: Broadside Rig; Stidriggs; Stiddrig Long Cairn
Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Moffat  Nearest Village: Kinnelhead
Map Ref: NY04139877  Landranger Map Number: 78
Latitude: 55.273714N  Longitude: 3.510557W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 1 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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Stiddrig
Stiddrig submitted by markj99 : Stiddrig Cairn as at 26.05.12 (Vote or comment on this photo)
A 25m long cairn in Dumfries & Galloway, situated within a forestry clearing. Up to 2m in height, increasing in width from 10m to 19m at the SSE end, where there is a shallow facade.

For more information see Canmore ID 66380 which tell us: "This long cairn is situated within a forestry clearing on a terrace on the N shoulder of Broadshaw Rig. Aligned with its long axis from NNW to SSE, it measures 25m in length by up to 2m in height, increasing in width from 10.7m at the NNW to 19m at the SSE end, where there is a shallow facade. The crest and flanks of the cairn have been much disturbed by stone robbing and the construction of sheep shelters, and a stone wall crosses the façade."
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Stiddrig
Stiddrig submitted by markj99 : Stiddrig Long Cairn viewed along SSE-NNW Axis. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stiddrig submitted by markj99 : A hollow in Stiddrig Long Cairn. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stiddrig submitted by markj99 : Stiddrig Long Cairn viewed from NW along the Dry Stane Dyke. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stiddrig submitted by markj99 : Approaching Stiddrig Cairn (4 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Striddrig Long Cairn by Stonemad on Friday, 16 April 2021
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I managed to trek here from Garvald. When I got back home I read up the Cranmore entries, and though I spotted the disturbances on the top, I'm not convinced that the regular stone work sections sheep shelters, as mentioned in the 1900 account (and copied in other accounts). Surely it is contemporary with the site. Other sites have the similar y-shaped arms too. There also appears to be a small heap not far from the rear of the cairn, a smaller cairn perhaps?
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Re: Stiddrig Long Cairn by markj99 on Sunday, 07 February 2021
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EDS There is a typo in the title of the site. It should be Stiddrig. Mark
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Lonnachie Rig Cairnfield by Andy B on Wednesday, 24 January 2018
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A nearer site to this one is NY 024 995

Some 34 cairns, measuring between 6ft (1.8m) and 15ft (4.5m) in diameter, lie on the hillside between two ancient tracks. The site is dry and stony, one of the few places where stone outcrop appears on this hillside. One monuments in the field, built of loose stone, measures 36ft (11.0m) by 12ft (3.6m) by 2ft 6ins maximum height (0.7m). Another lies about 150 yds (137m) above the field; it measures 27ft (8.2m) by 9ft (2.7m). Neither of these is oblong, the sides appear to be straight. They look like miniature long cairns.

"These cairns have been destroyed by forestry operations."

https://canmore.org.uk/site/66385/lonnachie-rig
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Re: Striddrig Long Cairn by Andy B on Wednesday, 24 January 2018
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Kirsty Millican has visited a Long Cairn called Striddrig here
https://ponderingthepast.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/the-long-cairn/

The long cairn is in a wide clearing within the forest, surrounded first by rank vegetation and then by the tall fir trees of the plantation. Wrapped, cocooned and protected. A grey mass of stones within a sea of green. A prehistoric remnant.

... I stood within the forecourt of the cairn. Reaching out, I touched the stone of the cairn, passing my hand over the soft moss and harder stone below, feeling the roughness of the stone beneath my fingers. As I did so, I thought of those who had built this monument. Of those whose hands had touched this stone before me. Those who had dragged, carried and moved rocks, and placed stone carefully on stone millennia ago (for this is a Neolithic monument, built and used sometime between 4000BC and 2500BC). Those who had participated in and witnessed events associated within this cairn’s creation and use. Those who had stood where I stand now.

What ceremonies and activities had this place witnessed as the burial monument was put together, as it was used and as it participated in the lives of those living around it? At one time this quiet and deserted place must have been full of people and noise, must have been known, special and valued, perhaps sacred.

It's at NY 0413 9877 so perhaps our page is in the wrong place?
Canmore: https://canmore.org.uk/site/66380/stiddrig
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