Burial Cairn, Duncow

About Burial Cairn, Duncow

Continue down the road to the Main Road. In the field on your right there is a 1-metre-high burial mound/cairn which would originally been up to 4m high but has been destroyed by Victorian treasure hunters. In the past an old road called the King’s Road ran through this field on its way from Dalswinton to Kirkton. Before you turn left at the T junction and walk along the main road to the school, look across the road. Recently excavated prehistoric barrows in this area contained burials...