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Latitude: 54.9351 / 54°56'6"N
Longitude: -4.8259 / 4°49'33"W
OS Eastings: 219057
OS Northings: 563705
OS Grid: NX190637
Mapcode National: GBR GHGN.N7C
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.V740
Entry Name: Hardcroft,burnt mound 1100m SSE of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4935
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a burnt mound, which may cover timber or stone structures, of the prehistoric or medieval periods. Situated beside a tributary of the Cruise Burn near the junction of the march dykes between Kilhern, Cruise, and Balneil, it is D-shaped and measures 11.5m NNW-SSE by 5.5m and 0.6m high. There is a small sheep-scrape in the straight side facing the burn. The area to be scheduled includes the burnt mound and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument but excluding the march dyke to the SW, and Cruise land, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a prehistoric or medieval burnt mound which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric or medieval settlement in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other burnt mounds in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the organisation of the prehistoric and medieval landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 96.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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