What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hound Hill, Holmains Moor as Cairn (bronze Age), Cist (bronze Age), Button (jet)(bronze Age). 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.
Bronze Age cairn and cist, likely dating to the second millennium BCE. The presence of a jet button indicates funerary practices and regional craftsmanship of the period.
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Places near here
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Almagill Hill, Monument to Joe GrahamCommemorative Monument (19th Century) · 1548 yd
RockhallHotel (17th Century), Tower House (medieval) · 1.2 mi
Rockhall MoteMotte and Bailey (medieval) · 1.3 mi
Birset PlantationForest · 1.5 mi
Flosh WoodWood · 2.1 mi
Whiteside HillMountain / peak · 2.1 mi
Mouswald War MemorialMemorial · 2.3 mi
Mouswald, Mouswald CemeteryWar Memorial (20th Century) · 2.3 mi