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Barrows, 125m ESE of Endfield House

A Scheduled Monument in Stranraer and the Rhins, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8735 / 54°52'24"N

Longitude: -5.0093 / 5°0'33"W

OS Eastings: 207017

OS Northings: 557338

OS Grid: NX070573

Mapcode National: GBR GH0T.N7L

Mapcode Global: WH2SF.0RXS

Entry Name: Barrows, 125m ESE of Endfield House

Scheduled Date: 16 March 1999

Last Amended: 29 August 2023

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM7372

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow

Location: Inch

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Description

The monument comprises the remains of four barrows of prehistoric to Early Medieval date, which survive as buried archaeological features that visible by cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs. The monument lies in arable farmland, at a height of around 30m above sea level.

The barrows survive as buried archaeological features visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are likely to date to the Bronze Age (2500BC-800BC), the Iron Age (800BC-500AD) or Early Medieval period (AD 400-1000). The largest barrow, at the north of the group, measures around 15m in external diameter within a circular enclosing ditch. There is an inner enclosure about 6m wide which may indicate more than one phase of activity. In the centre of this barrow is a small circular feature, which probably represents a burial pit. There are three further barrows, to the south and south-southeast of the largest barrow. The barrow to the south measures around 10m wide externally with a central feature, possibly a burial pit, visible. The third barrow to the south-southeast, possibly a square barrow of Early Medieval date, measures about 7m in width and length with a central, small circular feature also visible. The fourth and southernmost barrow, also possibly a square barrow, is visible as a sub-quadrangular feature, measuring up to 7m wide.

The scheduled area is irregular. It includes the remains described above and an area around within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map. 

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance because it makes a significant contribution to our understanding or appreciation of the past or has the potential to do so as a group of barrows, comprising four barrows likely to date to the Bronze Age (2,500 BC – 800 BC), the Iron Age (800BC-500AD) or Early Medieval period (AD 400–1000). The monument retains structural, architectural, decorative or other physical attributes which make a significant contribution to our understanding or appreciation of the past. There is the potential for the survival of archaeological features and with well stratified deposits, artefacts, environmental and human remains. The monument is a particularly good example of a group of barrows which may represent at least two phases of burial and is therefore an important representative example of this monument type.  

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/79390/

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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