What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cairngryffe Hill as Cairnfield (period Unknown). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Cairngryffe Hill is a Neolithic cairnfield, dating to the earlier part of the first millennium BCE. Cairnfields are significant as they represent early land use and ritual practices in the Scottish landscape.
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Places near here
Cloburn QuarryCairn (period Unassigned), Axehead (stone)(period Unassigned), Bead(s) (jet)(period Unassigned), Beaker (period Unassigned), Button(s) (jet)(period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(s) (flint)(period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (neolithic) - (bronze · 764 yd
Swaites HillBurial Cairn (bronze Age), Cist(s) (bronze Age), Rapier (middle Bronze Age), Unidentified Flint(s) (prehistoric), Unidentified Pottery (bronze Age) - (iron Age) · 805 yd
EastgateGate Lodge (19th Century) · 926 yd
Cairngryffe HillHouse Platform (period Unassigned) · 945 yd
ShawhillNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.0 mi
Kirk HillMountain / peak · 1.0 mi
Shawhill WoodForest · 1.3 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.4 mi
Avenue PlantationWood · 1.5 mi
Covington TowerMotte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval) · 1.8 mi
Eastend HouseCountry House (18th Century), Tower House (16th Century) · 2.1 mi
Covenanter's MonumentMemorial · 2.3 mi