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Latitude: 54.9795 / 54°58'46"N
Longitude: -4.843 / 4°50'34"W
OS Eastings: 218162
OS Northings: 568681
OS Grid: NX181686
Mapcode National: GBR 41.XF4K
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.L30H
Entry Name: Quarter Farm,farmstead 570m NW of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4801
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead, comprising a single rectangular building, on the W flank of Barleoch Hill. It measures 13m ENE-WSW by 7m overall. Divided into three compartments, its walls are up to 1.5m thick and 0.5m high. The area to be scheduled includes the building 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 pre-improvement farmstead which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of medieval and later settlement in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number similar sites in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the organisation of the medieval and later landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 33.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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