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Latitude: 54.9617 / 54°57'42"N
Longitude: -4.9177 / 4°55'3"W
OS Eastings: 213302
OS Northings: 566905
OS Grid: NX133669
Mapcode National: GBR GH7L.G6D
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.FKH4
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,hut circle 1450m SW of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5131
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
This hut circle lies on the NW side of Cairnerzean Fell to the SW of a rocky knoll. The stone walls are clearly visible. The hut circle measures 7.4m in diameter and the wall 2.5m thick and 0.4m high. The entrance is to the SE within a possible baffle wall. The vegetation cover is distinctive from the surrounding coarse tussock grass, being close cropped grass with some clumps of heather and sedge.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 30m square centred on the hut circle, to include the monument and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive. This area is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as one of a group of hut circles which lie on marginal land to the W of Cairnerzean Fell. It is noteworthy in itself for having a baffle wall at the entrance forming an ante-chamber and as part of the larger group of hut circles for its contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric settlement pattern on what is now marginal land.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 74.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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