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Pitcarmick

Cairnfield (prehistoric)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pitcarmick as Cairnfield (prehistoric). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Pitcarmick is a Neolithic cairnfield, dating to the early to middle first millennium BCE. It is significant as part of a broader pattern of prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape use in southern Scotland.

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