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Latitude: 54.9764 / 54°58'35"N
Longitude: -4.9083 / 4°54'29"W
OS Eastings: 213969
OS Northings: 568517
OS Grid: NX139685
Mapcode National: GBR GH8K.6H3
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.K5XT
Entry Name: Pularyan,burnt mound 350m NW of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5135
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This burnt mound is situated on the NE side of a small burn on a low ridge on the floor of the valley of the Main Water of Luce and lies in the corner of a newly fenced field. The mound is penannular and measures 10.4m by 9.2m and 0.2m high. It opens onto a shallow stream gully on the W.
The area proposed for scheduling is a square 30m NS by 30m EW centred on the mound but excluding the modern fence. This includes an area around the monument in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as one of substantial group of burnt mounds on the slopes of the valley of the Water of Luce which date variously to the Bronze Age and to the Middle Ages. Through its location in the landscape and relative to other contemporary sites, and through excavation, it has the potential to contribute to our knowledge of past human use of this now marginal landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 53.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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