Garpol Water
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Garpol Water
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 73696
Site Number NT00SE 90
NGR NT 05519 03329
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73696
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkpatrick-juxta
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Field Visit (23 October 1990)
NT00SE 90 05519 03329
Situated at the head of a wide boggy hollow which drains into the Garpol Water some 330m to the E, there is a burnt mound. Roughly oval on plan, it measures 3.8m in diameter from N to S by 3.5m transversely and up to 0.3m in height. The nature of the mound was tested by the removal of a turf revealing a mass of reddened angular fragments of stone and small pieces of charcoal within a matrix of loose black earth.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 23 October 1990
Listed as burnt mound.
RCAHMS 1997.
