Stroanreggan Cairn
The Stroanfreggan Cairn is located on low ground, east of Knowehead, south of the B729 near St John's Town of Dalry, often Dalry for short , in Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland .
The Bronze Age Stroanfreggan Cairn used as a quarry is an oval cairn measuring 21.9 by 22.8 m and up to 1.6 m in height. In 1910 a stone box was found 7.5 m from the east arch . Its sides consisted of four large panels, the joints of which were sealed with smaller stones and glued with clay. The box, which is only partially visible today, measured 1.05 × 0.6 × 0.7 m inside and was covered by a capstone measuring 1.5 × 1.2 m. It contained a plano-convex flint knife . On the periphery of the cairn are three preserved boulders with a length of 0.6 to 0.9 m and a height of 0.3 to 0.6 m, while the pits of the removed stones are of different sizes. In 1910, four small splinters of flint and bone fragments mixed with charcoal were found in the neighborhood on loose soil. In the Dumfries Museum is u. a. a fragment of thin bronze, possibly from a double-edged razor, from the Cairn.
literature
- John Corrie: Notice of the discovery of a Stone-Age cist in a large cairn at Stroanfreggan, Parish of Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 45, 1910/1911, pp. 428-434, ( (PDF; 651.6 KB) ).
Web links
- Description Engl. and picture
- Entry on Stroanfreggan Cairn in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
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Coordinates: 55 ° 11 '53.8 " N , 4 ° 8' 17.1" W.