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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
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
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
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SW 78.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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