What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cawin Hill as Cairn (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Cawin Hill is a Neolithic cairn, typically dating to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE. Such cairns are significant as early funerary or ceremonial monuments, reflecting the burial practices and social organisation of Neolithic communities in Scotland.
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Places near here
Cawin HillEnclosure (period Unassigned) · 523 yd
Dyke FarmFarmstead (medieval) - (post Medieval) · 662 yd
Bennan HillFort (period Unassigned)(possible) · 1236 yd
Bennan WoodForest · 1284 yd
Curroch WoodForest · 1554 yd
Black Hill of KnockgardnerBuilding (period Unassigned) · 1750 yd
Straiton, Straiton CemeteryCemetery (modern) · 1.1 mi
Straiton, Dalmellington RoadNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.2 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.2 mi
MiltonCountry House (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)(possible) · 1.3 mi
Back FellMountain / peak · 1.7 mi