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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
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
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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