Fauldinchie
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Fauldinchie
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Hardcroft
Canmore ID 61585
Site Number NX16SE 119
NGR NX 19288 64979
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61585
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish New Luce
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX16SE 119 1928 6497.
A burnt mound stands on the NW side of a boggy stream-bed below the track followed by the Southern Upland Way, 180m E of its junction with the public road. The main part of the mound is roughly circular, measuring 10.5m in diameter by 0.7m in height, and has a hollow in its SE side opening into the stream-bed; the hollow measures 3.8m in length by 2.8m across the mouth. At the foot of the mound on the NE there is a crescentic mound with the hollow in its open side facing SSE into the stream-bed, the mound mesures 5.3m from NE to SW by 4m transversely and 0.4m in height, and the hollow 2.1m in length by 1.8m across the mouth.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 30 June 1986
Measured Survey (17 July 1986)
RCAHMS surveyed the burnt mound at Fauldinchie on 17 July 1986 with plane-table and alidade at a scale of 1:200.
Field Visit (30 June 1986)
A burnt mound stands on the NW side of a boggy stream-bed below the track followed by the Southern Upland Way, 180m E of its junction with the public road. The main part of the mound is roughly circular, measuring 10.5m in diameter by 0.7m in height, and has a hollow in its SE side opening into the stream-bed; the hollow measures 3.8m in length by 2.8m across the mouth. At the foot of the mound on the NE there is a crescentic mound with the hollow in its open side facing SSE into the stream-bed, the mound mesures 5.3m from NE to SW by 4m transversely and 0.4m in height, and the hollow 2.1m in length by 1.8m across the mouth.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 30 June 1986
Note (1 December 2021)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.
