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Little Larg,burnt mound 2250m south west of

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9398 / 54°56'23"N

Longitude: -4.8927 / 4°53'33"W

OS Eastings: 214802

OS Northings: 564401

OS Grid: NX148644

Mapcode National: GBR GH9N.7NK

Mapcode Global: WH2S8.T3BD

Entry Name: Little Larg,burnt mound 2250m SW of

Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM5058

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 lies 180m SSW of the ruins of Auchie farmstead. It extends in a gentle arc down to the E side of a boggy stream bed. It is 22m long, between 5m at the N and 3.5m at the S and rises from 0.2m at the centre to 0.5m at either end.

The area proposed for scheduling is a 20m radius circle based on the centre of the mound, as marked in red on the accompanying map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

This monument is of national importance as a member of a small uninvestigated group of mounds, which are capable of providing, through excavation, evidence for the date and function of such sites and their relationship to contemporary agricultural activity in the area.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SW 78.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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