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Latitude: 54.7962 / 54°47'46"N
Longitude: -4.9599 / 4°57'35"W
OS Eastings: 209821
OS Northings: 548604
OS Grid: NX098486
Mapcode National: GBR GJ41.0TQ
Mapcode Global: WH2ST.SQB1
Entry Name: Palisaded settlement, 130m SE of Lake Cottage
Scheduled Date: 31 October 2000
Last Amended: 23 May 2023
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7352
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: Stoneykirk
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises a palisaded settlement dating to the Iron Age (800 BC – AD 400), visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs. The monument lies in arable farmland at around 23m above sea level.
The settlement is defined by a ditch about 1m wide, forming a subcircular enclosure measuring 44m from northest to southeast by 40m across. A 4m wide gap on the south-southwest side may be an entrance. The ditch is the remains of a trench in which a timber palisade fence of closely spaced posts would have been set. Within this settlement is a roundhouse measuring 10m northwest to southeast and visible as two crescent shaped ditches. There are also at least 7 pits ranging in size from 0.9m to 1.5m long of uncertain date and function within the interior.
The scheduled area is a clipped circle 70m in diameter. It includes the remains described above and an area around within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map. It excludes all above ground elements of the current telephone pole and post and wire fencing to allow for their maintenance.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/60462/
HER/SMR Reference
MDG627
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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