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Kilfeddar, hut circle 1120m NNE of

A Scheduled Monument in Mid Galloway and Wigtown West, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9844 / 54°59'3"N

Longitude: -4.8788 / 4°52'43"W

OS Eastings: 215891

OS Northings: 569320

OS Grid: NX158693

Mapcode National: GBR GHBJ.MZ8

Mapcode Global: WH2RX.1Z09

Entry Name: Kilfeddar, hut circle 1120m NNE of

Scheduled Date: 5 October 1999

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM7487

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse

Location: New Luce

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Description

The monument comprises a hut circle of prehistoric date, visible as turf-covered wall footings.

The monument lies in rough pasture at around 175m OD. It comprises a hut circle measuring about 5.8m in internal diameter. Its walls survive as a stony bank measuring about 2.2m thick by up to 0.5m in height, with an entrance on the ESE. Hut circles of this type are characteristic of Bronze and Iron Age settlement sites and represent the remains of timber-roofed roundhouses. Immediately outside the entrance to the hut circle there is a small structure measuring about 1.7m in internal diameter within a stony bank about 1.6m thick by 0.3m in height. Its entrance faces NW towards the hut circle.

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 circular with a diameter of 35m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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