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Latitude: 54.9451 / 54°56'42"N
Longitude: -4.8977 / 4°53'51"W
OS Eastings: 214504
OS Northings: 565000
OS Grid: NX145650
Mapcode National: GBR GH8M.Z76
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.QYYX
Entry Name: Little Larg,hut circle and cairns 2050m SW by W of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5044
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The hut circle is situated on a shallow slope on the S side of Drumminnoch to the S of at least 35 cairns covering about 1.5ha. The hut circle is 6.5m by 5m and its wall measures about 0.2m to 0.3m high. The entrance is on the SE. The largest of the cairns is about 4m in diameter and 0.5m high. The whole area is covered by fairly uniform coarse grass.
The area proposed for scheduling is 200m square, aligned N-S with its SW corner at NX 1240 6490. This will include the hut circle and all the cairns and an area around and between them in which traces of any activities associated with their construction and use may survive. The area is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
These monuments are of national importance as a related group. The hut circle and clearance cairns are situated well into the marginal land and on excavation will offer much useful information concerning the prehistoric settlement and land-use of the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SW 66.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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