This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 54.9638 / 54°57'49"N
Longitude: -4.8867 / 4°53'12"W
OS Eastings: 215292
OS Northings: 567051
OS Grid: NX152670
Mapcode National: GBR GH9L.BD0
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.XH5K
Entry Name: Little Larg,burnt mound 1250m NW of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5039
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 NW side of a boggy stream bed 70m W of the S end of the stone dyke that drops down the NW flank of Brown Hill to the Lingdowey Burn. The mound is 3.8m by 2m and up to 0.4m high and flanks the NE side of a shallow hollow which opens into the stream bed.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 20m square centred on the mound and aligned N-S.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance for the evidence it could contribute, through excavation, to understanding of the function of burnt mounds, their dating and association with other monuments. In addition, it is a fine monument, displaying the characteristics of a typical small burnt mound, probably of tenth or eleventh century AD date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 55.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments