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Latitude: 54.9525 / 54°57'9"N
Longitude: -4.8203 / 4°49'12"W
OS Eastings: 219495
OS Northings: 565628
OS Grid: NX194656
Mapcode National: GBR 42.Z0DQ
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.XST5
Entry Name: Barnshangan,field system 700m ENE of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4925
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 is a prehistoric field system comprising fieldclearance cairns, between which may survive the remains of timberstructures, and an enclosure. The cairns, measuring up to 4.5m indiameter and 0.5m high, are scattered over the W flank of a lowridge to the ENE of Barnshangan. In the NW of the group is a smallenclosure situated at the bottom of a steep slope. It is oval andmeasures 6m NW-SE by 4.5m internally within a bank 1.5m thick and0.4m high. The area to be scheduled includes the cairns, theenclosure, and an area around them within which traces of activityassociated with their use may be found. It measures a maximum of230m N-S by 200m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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