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Latitude: 54.8671 / 54°52'1"N
Longitude: -4.9859 / 4°59'9"W
OS Eastings: 208487
OS Northings: 556570
OS Grid: NX084565
Mapcode National: GBR GH2V.6Y0
Mapcode Global: WH2SF.DX0N
Entry Name: Culgrange, enclosures 340m SE of
Scheduled Date: 5 October 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7367
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded settlement
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises two palisaded settlements of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland at around 20m OD. There are two oval ditched enclosures. The enclosure to the E measures about 23m NE-SW by 20m, with the ditch about 1m wide. Some 20m to the W, the second enclosure measures about 37m NW-SE by 30m, with the ditch about 1m wide. There appears to be an entrance on the ENE of the second enclosure.
A palisade is a timber fence of closely spaced posts set into a continuous narrow trench. Enclosed settlements such as this are characteristic of the first half of the first millennium BC.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is a quadrilateral, measuring 150m approximately E-W by 100m approximately NNW-SSE, bounded on the SW and SE by fences, which are themselves excluded from scheduling, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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