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Latitude: 55.0103 / 55°0'37"N
Longitude: -4.8334 / 4°50'0"W
OS Eastings: 218914
OS Northings: 572087
OS Grid: NX189720
Mapcode National: GBR 41.VHCF
Mapcode Global: WH2RX.QBKC
Entry Name: Glenkitten,hut circle 800m E of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4851
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 Bronze Age or Iron Age situated on the SE flank of Glenkitten Fell, near the S boundary of a new forestry plantation (not shown on the 1:10,000 map). It is scooped into the hill-slope and measures 9.5m in internal diameter within a wall 2m thick and up to 0.3m high. The entrance is to the ESE. 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. It 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 Bronze Age or Iron Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other monuments of similar date and function in the vicinity; 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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