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Mull of Galloway Farm, cairn 2300m SE of is a Bronze Age burial cairn situated in Wigtownshire in south-west Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a coarse-grained wacke formed during the Wenlock period of the Silurian. This hard, locally-available stone would have provided suitable material for cairn construction. The site benefits from statutory protection as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland reference SM4702.
Cairns of this type, built as burial monuments, are characteristic of Bronze Age settlement patterns across southern Scotland and represent significant ritual and social investment in the commemoration of the dead. Their construction typically involved the accumulation of stone gathered from the immediate landscape, creating durable markers within the open moorland or farmland environment.
The monument's location on the Mull of Galloway Farm places it within an area of considerable Bronze Age archaeological interest. The survival of such cairns, despite millennia of agricultural use and land management, demonstrates their physical durability and the importance afforded to their protection as heritage assets.
Mull of Galloway Farm, cairn 2300m SE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4702. View the official record →
Mull of Galloway Farm, cairn 2300m SE of is a Bronze Age burial cairn situated in Wigtownshire in south-west Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4702.
Mull of Galloway Farm, cairn 2300m SE of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM4702.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mull of Galloway, fortifications N & S ends of Isthmus (1.4 km), Mull Farm,St Medan's Chapel & cave 550m SE of (1.7 km), Mull Glen,fort,West Tarbet (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Mull of Galloway Farm, cairn 2300m SE of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Mull of Galloway Farm, cairn 2300m SE of stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.