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Latitude: 54.9187 / 54°55'7"N
Longitude: -4.8287 / 4°49'43"W
OS Eastings: 218803
OS Northings: 561883
OS Grid: NX188618
Mapcode National: GBR GHGQ.0XX
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.SMTM
Entry Name: Mid Gleniron,hut circle 650m N of
Scheduled Date: 13 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4984
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
This hut circle is situated on the W side of Gleniron Fell 350m WSW
of Mirren's Croft and 120m ENE of the march dyke with Galdenoch. It
is 9.3m by 8m and 0.5m high. Parts of both wall faces are visible including, on the W, a portion of inner face standing two courses
high. The entrance is on the S. In the immediate vicinity there is a scatter of small cairns and at least one stony bank. There are the remains of an old ree 50m to the WNW and a burnt mound lies on the E side of a small burn 30m to the SE. This is crescentic with its open side facing the burn and measures 6.5m by 3.6m by 0.4m high.
The proposed scheduling area includes all of these monuments
extending 120m NS and 120m EW centred on the hut circle.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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