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Latitude: 54.9229 / 54°55'22"N
Longitude: -4.8234 / 4°49'24"W
OS Eastings: 219164
OS Northings: 562334
OS Grid: NX191623
Mapcode National: GBR GHGP.PCS
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.WJBF
Entry Name: Mid Gleniron,hut circle and cairns 1100m N of
Scheduled Date: 13 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4978
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
A group of about forty small cairns extend for about 500m on the W slopes of Gleniron Fell. The hut circle stands on a terrace about 350m N of Mirren's Croft measuring about 5.5m in diameter and 0.2m to 0.4m high, the entrance is on the SSE.
The proposed schedule area covers all of these. The SW corner is at NX1910 6281 and the area extends 100m due E and 300m due N. The slopes are quite boggy and it is reasonable to suppose that other monuments of the Bronze Age may lie beneath the peat.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as a good field example of an area of Bronze or early Iron Age upland landscape which has been preserved by the encroachment of the peat. As such and as part of a group of monuments it offers the potential, through excavation, to enhance understanding of the land-use and management of the period, and also to shed light upon the reasons for subsequent retreat from these uplands.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 18.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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