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Glenkitten,clearance cairns 250m NNW of

A Scheduled Monument in Mid Galloway and Wigtown West, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.0112 / 55°0'40"N

Longitude: -4.8488 / 4°50'55"W

OS Eastings: 217935

OS Northings: 572226

OS Grid: NX179722

Mapcode National: GBR 40.VKTC

Mapcode Global: WH2RX.H98P

Entry Name: Glenkitten,clearance cairns 250m NNW of

Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM4900

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field clearance cairn, cairnfield

Location: New Luce

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Description

The monument consists of a number of field clearance cairns, between which may survive the remains of timber structures, of the late neolithic or Bronze Age. The cairns survive as turf-covered mounds of small stones up to 4m in diameter and 0.4m high to the E of the New Luce to Barrhill road. The area to be scheduled includes the cairns and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may be found. It measures a maximum of 200m WNW-ESE by 140m transversely, bounded by, but excluding, a fence to the NW, as marked in red on the attached map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance as field clearance cairns of the late Neolithic or Bronze Age which have the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement and agriculture.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 17 SE 70.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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