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Latitude: 54.9767 / 54°58'36"N
Longitude: -4.8392 / 4°50'21"W
OS Eastings: 218392
OS Northings: 568362
OS Grid: NX183683
Mapcode National: GBR 41.XN02
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.M5TN
Entry Name: Quarter Farm,hut circle 220m WNW of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4787
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a hut circle of the Bronze Age or Iron Age situated on the SW flank of Barleoch Hill. It is scooped into the hill-slope and measures 8m in internal diameter within a wall 1.5m thick and 0.2m high. The area to be scheduled includes the hut circle and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a hut circle of the Bronze Age or Iron Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other sites of similar date and function in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the development and organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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