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Latitude: 55.0278 / 55°1'39"N
Longitude: -4.8243 / 4°49'27"W
OS Eastings: 219575
OS Northings: 574005
OS Grid: NX195740
Mapcode National: GBR 41.TCH7
Mapcode Global: WH2RQ.VWWJ
Entry Name: Miltonise,hut circle and cairns 800m NE of
Scheduled Date: 6 September 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6009
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of a hut circle and clearance cairns of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age. The hut circle occupies a scooped platform and measures 10.5m E-W by 8m transversely. The wall survives as a low stony bank 0.2m high. It is bisected by an old, collapsed field wall. Around the hut circle are at least 20 field clearance cairns. The area to be scheduled includes the hut circle, the cairns, and an area around them in which traces of
activity associated with its use will be found. The area is bounded in part by , but excludes, a modern fence to the S, and is a square measuring 100m N-S by 100m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a hut circle and field clearance cairns of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement and agriculture in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 17 SE 67.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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