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Latitude: 54.9434 / 54°56'36"N
Longitude: -4.8906 / 4°53'25"W
OS Eastings: 214954
OS Northings: 564800
OS Grid: NX149648
Mapcode National: GBR GH9N.2LW
Mapcode Global: WH2S8.V0BM
Entry Name: Little Larg,burnt mound 1800m SW of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5047
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This burnt mound is situated at the junction of two small burns 150m NNE of the ruins of Auchie farmstead. Roughly triangular in plan with a slight hollow in its SSW side the mound is 6m by a maximum of 5m and up to 0.5m high.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 20m radius circle centred on the mound, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as one of a small group of burnt mounds which are so far unstudied but which will contain information, accessible through excavation, bearing upon archaeological understanding of the function and associations of such monuments.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SW 76.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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