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Brunt Cleuch

Cairnfield (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cultivation Terrace(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Brunt Cleuch

Classification Cairnfield (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cultivation Terrace(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Big Hill

Canmore ID 74286

Site Number NT10SW 32

NGR NT 1195 0267

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Moffat
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

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Field Visit (12 August 1991)

NT10SW 32 1195 0267

At least nine cultivation terraces lie on the SW flank of Big Hill on the E side of the Brunt Cleuch. The terraces measure from 10m to 25m in breadth and up to 1.5m in height and upon them there are about fourteen small cairns measuring up to 6m in diameter.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 12 August 1991.

Listed as cairnfield.

RCAHMS 1997.

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