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Latitude: 55.2123 / 55°12'44"N
Longitude: -3.1437 / 3°8'37"W
OS Eastings: 327322
OS Northings: 591490
OS Grid: NY273914
Mapcode National: GBR 68H5.6B
Mapcode Global: WH6X9.P861
Entry Name: Lyneholm,settlement 500m WSW and homestead 250m SW of
Scheduled Date: 31 May 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4691
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: homestead
Location: Westerkirk
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monuments are a homestead and a defended settlement, both of the Iron Age. The homestead lies on the E flank of Lyneholm Hill. It measures 26.5m (N-S) by 25m transversely within a stony bank spread up to 2.2m in thickness and 0.3m in height. The interior has been scooped into the slope on S and W, and contains a possible house platform measuring c. 9.5m in diameter. The site is crossed from N to S by a dry-stone dyke.
Some 300m to the W lies the defended settlement known as the White Birren, occupying part of the summit of Lyneholm Hill. It measures c. 54m by 39m within a stone-faced bank 3m thick, accompanied on the SW by an external ditch. On the S of the interior is a circular house-platform. An area measuring 50m in diameter centred on the homestead is proposed for scheduling around the homestead. An area 80m in diameter is proposed for scheduling around the defended settlement, centred on the settlement.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The two monuments represent separate elements of Iron Age settlement. Both have well preserved field characteristics, in that, house stances survive within them. They are, individually, of national importance to the theme of Iron Age settlement. Taken together, and with the larger forts and settlements nearby at Bankburnfoot, Bailiehill and Bogle Walls, they are of national importance to the theme of the development and organisation of the Iron Age landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monuments as NY 29 SE 12 and 34.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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