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Latitude: 54.9832 / 54°58'59"N
Longitude: -4.8168 / 4°49'0"W
OS Eastings: 219853
OS Northings: 569030
OS Grid: NX198690
Mapcode National: GBR 42.X16H
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.Z0FM
Entry Name: Quarter Farm,enclosure 1380m NE of
Scheduled Date: 29 October 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4867
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is an enclosure of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age situated on the NE side of an old field of rig-and-furrow cultivation. Overlain by the rig-and-furrow field, the enclosure measures about 40m by 30m within a stony bank 1.5m thick and up to 1m high. The bank is faced with large stones. A second bank runs for 30m SE from the E side to disappear under peat. The area to be scheduled includes the enclosure and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It measures 100m E-W by 100m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as an enclosure of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement and agriculture in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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