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Latitude: 55.0358 / 55°2'8"N
Longitude: -4.84 / 4°50'24"W
OS Eastings: 218608
OS Northings: 574942
OS Grid: NX186749
Mapcode National: GBR 41.SV4C
Mapcode Global: WH2RQ.MPFB
Entry Name: Markdhu,hut circle 1370m N of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4911
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 is a hut circle of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age. It has been cut into a gentle slope to produce a level platform for a house 8.7m in diameter within a stony bank 1.5m wide and 0.3m high. The entrance through the bank is to the SE. A stony spread or bank runs around the slope immediately to the NE of the hut. The area to be scheduled includes the hut circle and an area around it in which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a hut circle of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age which has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of prehistoric settlement in the area. Its importance is increased by the survival 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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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 17 SE 48.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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