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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
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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