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Latitude: 54.9189 / 54°55'7"N
Longitude: -4.8325 / 4°49'56"W
OS Eastings: 218562
OS Northings: 561913
OS Grid: NX185619
Mapcode National: GBR GHFQ.55S
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.RM0H
Entry Name: Galdenoch,farmstead 950m ENE of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5056
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 110m W of the march dyke between Galdenoch and Mid Gleniron Farms on rough pasture amongst small craigs. There are the remains of two rectangular buildings (about 12m by 4m) set end to end with another building 50m to the NNE. The farmstead is surrounded
by extensive evidence of rig and furrow cultivation.
The area to be scheduled is a rectangle 100m EW and 150m NS
with its SW corner at NX1850 6180, as marked in red on the
accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as one of a group of pre-improvement farms which, taken together, have the capacity, through surface and excavation study, to enhance knowledge of land-use and management of the later Medieval and early Modern agricultural landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 49.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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