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Latitude: 54.9159 / 54°54'57"N
Longitude: -4.8402 / 4°50'24"W
OS Eastings: 218052
OS Northings: 561602
OS Grid: NX180616
Mapcode National: GBR GHFQ.7NB
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.MPBS
Entry Name: Galdenoch,farmstead 600m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 13 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4980
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This farmstead lies in enclosed field of improved pasture on the S flank of Cruise Back Fell. There are the remains of three rectangular buildings all of which are similar in size about 7m by 5m The E building has an adjoining yard. There are traces of stone dykes and rig-and-furrow cultivation around the buildings. The proposed area for scheduling is a rectangle (100m NS and 150m EW) the W side being formed by the W field dyke and the SW corner 65m N of the SW corner of the field. This includes all the buildings, the enclosure and traces of possible cultivation.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as one of a group of pre-improvement farms which together contain the potential to enhance, through excavation and comparative study, archaeological understanding of the land-use and management of the pre-improvement landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 52.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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