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  SM4362_Legal Doc

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Summary

Description

The monument consists of a hut circle, cairn and field system. The hut circle is visible as a platform: a low flat topped knoll 8mm in diameter projecting from a gentle slope of SE aspect, near the SE edge of a field system marked by stone clearance heaps and some lynchets, with the fields averaging about 10m x 20m. Among the clearance heaps is a cairn 8m in diameter and about 0.5m high. It has a low kerb composed of slabs up to 0.8m long and best visible to the SE.

To the east, the ground falls to the Dorback Burn; to the SW it falls to the burn and then slopes on down to a large loch. To the WSW of the area is slightly improved pasture, now wet and rough, and beyond that is scrub woodland.

Statement of National Importance

The monument is important as a well defined and self contained land use unit with co-occurring house, cairn and field systems. So far as the author is aware, no excavations of this type of round house have been published and its dating must rest on the kerbed cairn which is more likely to be of the 2nd millenium BC than the 1st millenium or 3rd millenia BC.

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