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Little Laight

Hut Circle (Prehistoric)

Site Name Little Laight

Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 60902

Site Number NX07SE 44

NGR NX 0638 7125

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Inch
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX07SE 44 0638 7125.

A hut circle is situated on the W flank of Laight Moor 350m NNE of the old gun battery on the summit of Little Laight Hill. It measures about 5.5m in diameter within a stony bank 2.4m thick by 0.3m in maximum height and the entrance is on the SE. Around the entrance there is a baffle wall reduced to a stony bank 2m thick and 0.3m high; it forms an antechamber, measuring 3.5m from NE to SW by 2.2m transversely, with an entrance on the NE.

At least five small cairns are scattered to the NW of the hut circle.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 19 March 1985

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