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Little Larg,hut circle 1300m west of

A Scheduled Monument in Mid Galloway and Wigtown West, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9574 / 54°57'26"N

Longitude: -4.8927 / 4°53'33"W

OS Eastings: 214880

OS Northings: 566357

OS Grid: NX148663

Mapcode National: GBR GH9L.TWT

Mapcode Global: WH2S2.TNBG

Entry Name: Little Larg,hut circle 1300m W of

Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM5030

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse

Location: Inch

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Description

This hut-circle is situated on the N slopes of Craigengale. It is about 8m in diameter and up to 0.4m high. Only the W half is visible above the surface of the peat. The entrance is probably on the SE. A stony bank extends down the slope to the NE. The area proposed for scheduling is a 20m radius circle centred on the hut-circle, as marked in red on the accompanying map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

This monument is of national importance as part of an extensive area of Bronze Age activity along the upper Lingdowey Burn. It is also of national importance in its own right as a well-preserved prehistoric house foundation, containing evidence (accessible to excavation) for prehistoric domestic settlement and economy. It also serves as an indicator of the likely protection and obscuring by peat of other archaeological remains nearby.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 97.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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