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Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)

Site Name Auld Taggart

Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 61408

Site Number NX16NE 54

NGR NX 15160 67005

NGR Description Centre

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

C14 Radiocarbon Dating

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NX16NE 54 1516 6700.

A burnt mound has been exposed in the bottom of a drain on the SE side of a track leading up Auld Taggart about 40m NE of the burnt mound NX16NE 56. Little is visible of the mound, which is buried in peat at the mouth of a gully, but the deposit of burnt stones is exposed over a distance of 3.5m in the drain.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 3 July 1986

The mound was damaged by two drainage ditches and the Auld Taggart track. A box section was cut through it clear of both ditches to try and avoid the problem of flooding. The section was recorded and mound material was sampled for C-14 and possible TL dating. An area of compacted stones was noted under the mound edge.

C J Russell-White 1987

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Field Visit (3 July 1986)

A burnt mound has been exposed in the bottom of a drain on the SE side of a track leading up Auld Taggart about 40m NE of the burnt mound NX16NE 56. Little is visible of the mound, which is buried in peat at the mouth of a gully, but the deposit of burnt stones is exposed over a distance of 3.5m in the drain.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 3 July 1986

Further Details

Excavation (1987)

The mound was damaged by two drainage ditches and the Auld Taggart track. A box section was cut through it clear of both ditches to try and avoid the problem of flooding. The section was recorded and mound material was sampled for C-14 and possible TL dating. An area of compacted stones was noted under the mound edge.

C J Russell-White 1987

Further Details

Field Visit (23 March 2022)

HES Rhins and New Luce Project

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.

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