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Latitude: 54.9342 / 54°56'2"N
Longitude: -4.8842 / 4°53'3"W
OS Eastings: 215320
OS Northings: 563750
OS Grid: NX153637
Mapcode National: GBR GH9N.ZF1
Mapcode Global: WH2S8.Y7CR
Entry Name: Auchmantle,farmstead 1000m N of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5062
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The remains of this pre-improvement farmstead lie at the S end of Inchbread Hill on a small knoll above boggy ground W of the Auchmantle Burn. There are three groups of rectangular buildings aligned roughly N-S. The S is the largest single building. The central is a group of three buildings together. To the N is a group of small outbuildings with an adjacent enclosure.
There are further dykes and cairns to NE and SW and a probable kiln to the S. The area proposed for scheduling is a rectangle with its SW corner at NX1520 6360 and extending 300m N and 250m E. This will include the farmstead buildings and all the visible enclosures. The area is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance for the information it can provide, by the study of its form and location and through excavation, for the date, function and development of settlement in this marginal area during the later-medieval and early Modern periods.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 72.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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