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Latitude: 54.9025 / 54°54'9"N
Longitude: -5.1722 / 5°10'19"W
OS Eastings: 196715
OS Northings: 561030
OS Grid: NW967610
Mapcode National: GBR FHLR.KLN
Mapcode Global: WH1R6.J18H
Entry Name: Meikle Larbrax,farmstead 1040m NW of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4838
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Leswalt
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead situated immediately above the high-water mark and below the raised beach. It comprises a rectangular building and an enclosure. The building has two compartments and measures 12.6m by 4.4m within clay-bonded walls 0.5m thick and 1.3m high. The enclosure, which may be a second building, measures 4.3m by 3.9m within walls 0.8m thick and 0.7m high.
A terraced track leads from the buildings up to the top of the raised beach where there are extensive traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation. The area to be scheduled includes the building, the enclosure, the track, part of the cultivation traces, and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may be found. It measures 150m NE-SW by 100m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a pre-improvement farmstead which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of medieval and later settlement and agriculture in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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