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Latitude: 54.9927 / 54°59'33"N
Longitude: -4.8311 / 4°49'51"W
OS Eastings: 218983
OS Northings: 570126
OS Grid: NX189701
Mapcode National: GBR 41.WHXH
Mapcode Global: WH2RX.RRNW
Entry Name: Pultadie,farmstead 760m ENE of
Scheduled Date: 29 October 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4887
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead consisting of a rectangular house overlying an earlier house, and an adjoining rectangular enclosure. The earlier house measures 8m by 4.5m overall. Superimposed on it, and 0.5m smaller overall, is a later house with drystone walls which survive to a height of 1m. The drystone enclosure, to the S, measures 13m by 9.5m, and contains traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation. The area to be scheduled includes the house, the enclosure, and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may be found. It is a rectangle measuring 40m N-S by 30m 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 greatly enhance our understanding of pre-improvement settlement and agriculture. It is of greater importance because of the survival of a number of similar monuments in the vicinity; this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of land organisation in the medieval and later periods.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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