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Latitude: 54.9228 / 54°55'21"N
Longitude: -4.8955 / 4°53'43"W
OS Eastings: 214541
OS Northings: 562513
OS Grid: NX145625
Mapcode National: GBR GH9P.LBQ
Mapcode Global: WH2S8.RJZH
Entry Name: Standing Stones of Glenterrow
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4788
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone setting
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of five stones, with four of them lying in a sub rectangular setting. Some 12m to the NE is the fifth stone, an outlier to the main setting. The monument is clearly a member of the group known as ?4-posters?, ceremonial sites of the Bronze Age. There are few members of this class: they are particularly rare in SW Scotland. An area measuring 30m (NE-SW) (the SW end lying 10m to the SW of the edges of the main setting) by 20m (NW-SE).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is nationally important because of its good field characteristics, because it is a well preserved example of a rare class and because the investigation of the site and its immediate environs will contribute significantly to our understanding of the theme of the development of ritual activity and its relation to society in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SW 8.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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