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Latitude: 54.8791 / 54°52'44"N
Longitude: -4.9454 / 4°56'43"W
OS Eastings: 211142
OS Northings: 557793
OS Grid: NX111577
Mapcode National: GBR GH5T.7HY
Mapcode Global: WH2SG.0MBF
Entry Name: Mark, enclosed settlement E of
Scheduled Date: 5 October 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7441
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises an enclosed settlement of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland at around 20m OD. There is a rectilinear ditched enclosure, measuring about 60m NW-SE by at least 40m transversely, with the ditch about 2m wide. Within the interior there is a disc-shaped cropmark measuring about 15m in diameter, which indicates the remains of a timber roundhouse. Other less well-defined cropmarks in the interior may represent associated structures.
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 70m NW-SE by 65m transversely, bounded on the NW by the boundary fence alongside a road. The fence is not included in the scheduling. The area is marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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