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Latitude: 55.0256 / 55°1'32"N
Longitude: -4.8379 / 4°50'16"W
OS Eastings: 218698
OS Northings: 573799
OS Grid: NX186737
Mapcode National: GBR 41.TGBJ
Mapcode Global: WH2RQ.NYG6
Entry Name: Markdhu,hut circles and field system 100m NE of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4848
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 4 hut circles within a field system of broad stony banks and field clearance cairns, dating to the later Bronze Age or Iron Age. The largest hut circle measures 9m in diameter internally; the others 7m in diameter. Their walls survive as low stony banks 0.4m high and 1.5 to 2m wide.
The banks of the field system are up to 3m thick and 0.5m high. The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of 630m NE-SW by 300m transversely, bounded by, but not including, the stone dykes to the N, and excluding the above ground portions of the stone dykes included in the scheduled area, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as hut circles and field system of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age which have the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement and agriculture. It is particularly important because of the survival of a number of similar monuments in the area; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the development and organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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