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Latitude: 55.0287 / 55°1'43"N
Longitude: -4.8342 / 4°50'3"W
OS Eastings: 218944
OS Northings: 574137
OS Grid: NX189741
Mapcode National: GBR 41.T951
Mapcode Global: WH2RQ.QV5S
Entry Name: Markdhu,hut circle 730m NE of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4843
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a hut circle of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age, measuring 5m in diameter within a wall surviving as a stony bank 1.5m thick and 0.3m high. The entrance through the wall is on the SE. The area to be scheduled includes the hut circle and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be
found. The area measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument,as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a hut circle of the later Bronze Age or Iron Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement. It is particularly important because of the number of similar monuments in the area; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the development and organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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