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Latitude: 54.9609 / 54°57'39"N
Longitude: -4.9245 / 4°55'28"W
OS Eastings: 212863
OS Northings: 566837
OS Grid: NX128668
Mapcode National: GBR GH6L.R2C
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.BK7Q
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,hut circle 1900m WSW of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5133
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 monument consists of a circular foundation approximately 10m in diameter and lies at the confluence of two burns at the N end of the ridge to the W of Cairnerzean Fell. It is covered with coarse grass and has been partly damaged by tractor tracks proceding up to the
ridge.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 30m square centred on the hut circle, to include both it and an area around, in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive. The area is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance because it is one of a group of hut circles on marginal land to the W of Cairnerzean Fell which are at least partially covered with peat which will preserve buried soils and floor surfaces, giving evidence, accessible to excavation, for the date of retreat of settlement from this marginal land.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 56.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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