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Latitude: 55.4751 / 55°28'30"N
Longitude: -3.724 / 3°43'26"W
OS Eastings: 291122
OS Northings: 621493
OS Grid: NS911214
Mapcode National: GBR 25F4.K4
Mapcode Global: WH5TJ.RNT2
Entry Name: Glencaple,burnt mound 980m WNW of
Scheduled Date: 19 March 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5267
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: Crawfordjohn
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
This burnt mound (a prehistoric cooking place) is situated on the SW bank of a tributary of the Glengonnar Water, on the SE flank of Drake Law.
The area to be scheduled is 32m in diameter (centered on NS 31122149) and includes the burnt mound and an area in which traces of activities associated with the use of the mound may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to provide information about prehistoric cooking practice and economy, and because of its close proximity to two scheduled unenclosed platform settlements with which it may be contemporary.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NS92SW 49.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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