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Latitude: 54.9617 / 54°57'42"N
Longitude: -4.8907 / 4°53'26"W
OS Eastings: 215030
OS Northings: 566830
OS Grid: NX150668
Mapcode National: GBR GH9L.GKC
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.VK94
Entry Name: Little Larg,farmstead 1300m NW of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5051
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This farmstead is situated on a grassy knoll on the slopes of Auld Taggart over looking the Lingdowey Burn. There are the remains of three buildings (all about 4m by 5m) with a roughly 1.6ha enclosure. There is a further stone filled enclosure 110m to the NNE.
The area of the proposed scheduling is a rectangle 150m WE and 250m NS with its SW corner at NX1495 6670. The NW corner is cut off by the old march dyke between Little Larg and Cairnerzean. This area includes the farmstead buildings and both enclosures and traces of cultivation which survive between them.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as part of a rich group of medieval and post-medieval monuments including farmsteads, field-systems, rig-and-furrow, shielings and burnt mounds. Together, these monuments have the potential, through study of their interrelationships, to enhance archaeological understanding of the change in settlement pattern and land-use during this period.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 26.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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