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Latitude: 55.227 / 55°13'37"N
Longitude: -3.2779 / 3°16'40"W
OS Eastings: 318814
OS Northings: 593277
OS Grid: NY188932
Mapcode National: GBR 58K0.42
Mapcode Global: WH6X1.MW98
Entry Name: Barrack Hill, scooped settlement
Scheduled Date: 1 November 2002
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM8365
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: scooped settlement
Location: Hutton and Corrie
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale North
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monument comprises the remains of a scooped settlement, probably dating from the first millennium AD.
The scooped settlement lies in improved pasture on the sheltered SE flank of Barrack Hill. Roughly circular on plan, it measures 33m from NNW to SSE by 37m transversely within a grass-covered bank up to 4.2m in thickness and 1.1m in height. On the W the interior has been levelled into the natural slope to a depth of 2.3m. The entrance, which is 4.3m wide, lies on the E. Within the lower half of the interior there is a sub-circular house platform, which measures 11.8m from SE to NW by 9.8m transversely; there are traces of a ring-groove towards the rear of the settlement.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is roughly circular on plan and measures a maximum of 60m in diameter, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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