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Latitude: 54.8732 / 54°52'23"N
Longitude: -4.9568 / 4°57'24"W
OS Eastings: 210383
OS Northings: 557160
OS Grid: NX103571
Mapcode National: GBR GH4T.VMF
Mapcode Global: WH2SF.TST1
Entry Name: Barsolus, palisaded enclosures 490m N of
Scheduled Date: 5 October 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7440
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded settlement
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises two palisaded settlements of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland at around 15m OD. There is a circular ditched enclosure measuring about 55m in diameter, with the ditch about 1m wide. Some 70m to the E of this there is a second circular ditched enclosure, measuring about 30m in diameter, with the ditch about 1m wide; its SE half is not visible.
A palisade is a timber fence of closely spaced posts set into a continuous narrow trench. Enclosed settlements such as this are characteristic of the first half of the first millennium BC.
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 divided into two areas of unequal size. The area to the W is circular with a diameter of 80m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. The area to the E is circular with a diameter of 50m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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