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Latitude: 54.9568 / 54°57'24"N
Longitude: -4.8903 / 4°53'25"W
OS Eastings: 215032
OS Northings: 566287
OS Grid: NX150662
Mapcode National: GBR GH9L.W64
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.VNGW
Entry Name: Little Larg,cairn and field system 1100m W of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5049
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain); Secular: field system
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
These monuments lie on the N side of the summit of Craigengale. There are two stony banks and a stone structure. The two banks emerge from the peat and the stony structure is visible in a deep hollow in it. The vegetation cover is mostly coarse grass with variation only where the stones of the monuments are exposed.
The area proposed for scheduling is an irregular rhomboid with its corners at NX 1493 6622, 1500 6645, 1515 6627 and 1500 6614. This will include the visible parts of all three monuments and an area around and between them in which traces of 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 group of structures partially buried beneath the peat and therefore well preserved by it. If excavated they will offer valuable information about the prehistoric land-use and settlement of the area especially when compared and contrasted with neighbouring monuments.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 81 and 133.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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