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Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns

Scotland
HES SM2299
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Scotland
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Overview

History & significance

Whitefield Cairns is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The site comprises multiple cairns dating to the second millennium BC, representing an important funerary landscape from the Bronze Age period in the Scottish Borders. These monuments reflect the burial practices and ceremonial traditions of Bronze Age communities in south-eastern Scotland, with their physical form and distribution across the landscape providing evidence of sustained occupation and territorial organisation during this era. The cairns remain significant archaeological features that contribute to understanding prehistoric settlement patterns and ritual practices in the region.

Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2299. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns?

Whitefield Cairns is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Roxburghshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2299.

Who is responsible for protecting Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns?

Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns 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 SM2299.

What other scheduled monuments are near Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Birny Knowe,earthwork (8.2 km), Stobs Camp, prisoner of war camp and cemetery, military training camp and trenches, Stobs (9.1 km), Barns Burn,fort 680m NW of Newton Hill (9.5 km).

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Overview
An interactive map of the location with every monument and battle plotted, and a plain-language history built only from what the record holds.
Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Stat Accounts
The parish Statistical Accounts of the 1790s and 1830s, describing life, work and population here.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.
Spotlight
A deep dive into the most remarkable, lesser-known history of the place, traced back to the record.
Target Zones
For detectorists: the most promising ground to search nearby, ranked by confidence, with what to expect.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Birny Knowe,earthwork
Earthwork8.2 km
Stobs Camp, prisoner of war camp and cemetery, military training camp and trenches, Stobs
Prisoner of war camp and cemetery, military training camp and trenches, stobs9.1 km
Barns Burn,fort 680m NW of Newton Hill
Iron Age · Fort 680m nw of newton hill9.5 km
Teindside Lodge,cairn 50m N of
Cairn9.5 km
North House Cottages,cairn 200m SW of
Cairn9.8 km
Gray Hill,earthwork
Earthwork9.9 km
Change House,enclosure 320m WSW of
Post-Medieval · Enclosure9.9 km
White Knowe,settlement 180m W of Newton Hill
Settlement 180m w of newton hill10 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns

Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.

The wider landscape

Around Pisgah Saucer Barrows or Whitefield Cairns

Battle of PhiliphaughBattle (1645) · ~7 milesBattle of DarnickBattle · ~12 milesBattle of Melrose (also known as Battle of Darnick), 1526Battle (1526) · ~12.1 milesBattle of Ancrum MoorBattle (1545) · ~12.4 miles
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