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Little Larg,burnt mound 1800m south west of

A Scheduled Monument in Mid Galloway and Wigtown West, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

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

Description

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

Statement of Scheduling

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

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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SW 76.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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