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Latitude: 54.9817 / 54°58'54"N
Longitude: -4.9555 / 4°57'19"W
OS Eastings: 210976
OS Northings: 569231
OS Grid: NX109692
Mapcode National: GBR GH4J.WC2
Mapcode Global: WH2S1.V1FS
Entry Name: Awies, hut circle and cairn 480m WSW of
Scheduled Date: 5 October 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7475
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises a hut circle of prehistoric date, visible as turf-covered wall footings, and a cairn of prehistoric date, visible as a stony mound.
The monument lies in rough pasture at around 205m OD. It comprises a hut circle measuring about 15m NW-SE by about 12m transversely, defined by a stony bank measuring about 2m thick by about 0.3m in height. Hut circles such as this are characteristic of Bronze and Iron Age settlement sites and represent the remains of timber-roofed roundhouses. About 25m to the WSW of the hut circle is a disturbed cairn situated on a low knoll. It measures about 11m in diameter and is overlain by a small sheep enclosure. The cairn is likely to be a funerary monument dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, and may be expected to contain material relating to its mode of construction and use.
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 with dimensions of 90m ENE-WSW by 40m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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