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Latitude: 54.9595 / 54°57'34"N
Longitude: -4.9081 / 4°54'29"W
OS Eastings: 213904
OS Northings: 566627
OS Grid: NX139666
Mapcode National: GBR GH8L.LLD
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.LL0W
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,hut circle and cairns 1350m SSW of
Scheduled Date: 12 November 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5202
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 and group of clearance cairns lie on the E slopes of Cairnerzean Fell. It is covered with grass, moss and heather and some clumps of sedge. The hut circle measures 8.4m in diameter within a wall 1.7m thick and 0.4m high. There is a possibly later oval enclosure occupying most of the interior. The cairns are situated on
the slopes to the S.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 50m square centred on the hut circle, to include the hut circle and some of the cairns and also an area in which traces of the their construction and use may survive. It is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
These monuments are of national importance because they show the association of clearance cairns with hut circles. The hut circle is important in its own right as one of a group of such monuments on the E side of Cairnerzean Fell close to the edge of the improved land and could provide information about the prehistoric settlement pattern of this area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 12.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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