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Latitude: 54.9058 / 54°54'20"N
Longitude: -4.9261 / 4°55'34"W
OS Eastings: 212500
OS Northings: 560704
OS Grid: NX125607
Mapcode National: GBR GH6R.49G
Mapcode Global: WH2S8.9YGK
Entry Name: Chlenry, ring-ditches 380m SW of
Scheduled Date: 7 December 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7495
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises the remains of a group of ring-ditch houses of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland at around 25m OD. There are four ring-ditches in a row aligned roughly E-W. They measure between about 6m and 10m in internal diameter, with their ditches about 1m wide. The largest ring-ditch, the second one from the E, has an entrance on the SE. Ring-ditches such as this have been found on excavation to represent the remains of timber roundhouses of later prehistoric date.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is rectangular, measuring 120m approximately E-W by 50m approximately N-S, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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