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Latitude: 54.9581 / 54°57'29"N
Longitude: -4.8468 / 4°50'48"W
OS Eastings: 217820
OS Northings: 566311
OS Grid: NX178663
Mapcode National: GBR 41.YL8R
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.JM6Y
Entry Name: Knockiebae,clearance cairns 350m N of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4846
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of fifteen field clearance cairns, betweenwhich may survive the remains of timber structures, of the lateneolithic or Bronze Age. The cairns measure up to about 4m indiameter and 0.4m high. The area to be scheduled includes the cairnsand an area around them within which traces of activity associatedwith their use may be found. It measures 150m NNW-SSE by 150mtransversely, 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 similar monuments 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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