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Latitude: 54.9842 / 54°59'3"N
Longitude: -4.8209 / 4°49'15"W
OS Eastings: 219599
OS Northings: 569152
OS Grid: NX195691
Mapcode National: GBR 42.X08B
Mapcode Global: WH2RX.XZJF
Entry Name: Quarter Farm,clearance cairns 1200m NE of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4832
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 33 field clearance cairns, between which may survive the remains of timber structures, of the late neolithic or Bronze Age. The cairns survive to a diameter of about 5m and up to 0.5m 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 200m ENE-WSW by 100m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a group of field clearance cairns of the late Neolithic or Bronze Age which has 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 monuments 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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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 108.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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