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Beoch, palisaded enclosure 470m WNW of

A Scheduled Monument in Stranraer and the Rhins, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9475 / 54°56'50"N

Longitude: -4.9957 / 4°59'44"W

OS Eastings: 208240

OS Northings: 565534

OS Grid: NX082655

Mapcode National: GBR GH1M.NFW

Mapcode Global: WH2S1.7XB1

Entry Name: Beoch, palisaded enclosure 470m WNW of

Scheduled Date: 5 October 1999

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM7359

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure

Location: Inch

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

Description

The monument comprises a palisaded settlement of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.

The monument lies in arable farmland at around 35m OD. It comprises a roughly circular enclosure measuring about 40m in diameter, defined by a ditch measuring about 1.5m wide. A palisade is a timber fence of closely spaced posts set into a continuous narrow trench. Enclosed settlements of this type 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 circular with a diameter of 70m, 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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