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Latitude: 54.9796 / 54°58'46"N
Longitude: -4.8245 / 4°49'28"W
OS Eastings: 219348
OS Northings: 568652
OS Grid: NX193686
Mapcode National: GBR 41.XKD5
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.V3TC
Entry Name: Quarter Farm,clearance cairns 770m ENE of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4796
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field clearance cairn, cairnfield
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of as many as 24 field clearance cairns, between which may survive the remains of timber structures, of the late neolithic or Bronze Age. The cairns are up to about 4m in diameter and 0.4m high. The area to be scheduled includes the cairns and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may be found. It measures 150m NE-SW by 100m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as field clearance cairns of the late Neolithic or Bronze Age which have the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement and agriculture in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of 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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