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Latitude: 54.9327 / 54°55'57"N
Longitude: -4.8424 / 4°50'32"W
OS Eastings: 217991
OS Northings: 563475
OS Grid: NX179634
Mapcode National: GBR GHFN.STB
Mapcode Global: WH2S9.L8BW
Entry Name: Cruise,burnt mound 1100m NE of
Scheduled Date: 18 February 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4953
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a burnt mound, which may cover stone or timber structures, of the prehistoric or medieval periods. Situated immediately S of the march dyke with Balneil and N of the Cruise Burn, it measures 7.6m ENE by 6.4m transversely and 0.7m high. It has a hollow in its centre opening SE onto the burn. The area to be scheduled includes the burnt mound and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It respects the shape of the monument, measures 30m ENE-WSW and is bounded by the Cruise Burn to the S and the march dyke to the N, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a prehistoric or medieval burnt mound which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric or medieval settlement in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other burnt mounds in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the organisation of the prehistoric and medieval landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 88.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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