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Chlenry Hill hut circle is a prehistoric domestic structure situated 780 metres east-south-east of Chlenry in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock of the Portpatrick and Glenwhargen Formations, Caradocian wacke deposits laid down over 450 million years ago. This hard sedimentary stone would have provided suitable material for construction and tools, though the immediate landscape offers limited naturally-exposed building stone.
The hut circle belongs to the Bronze Age tradition of small, circular domestic settlements common across upland and marginal regions of Scotland. Such structures typically housed single family groups and date broadly between 2000 and 500 BC. The site's location in the rolling terrain of south-west Galloway reflects the pattern of settlement in areas where pastoral agriculture and transhumance would have supported scattered communities.
The monument is protected under Historic Environment Scotland designation SM7516. Its survival offers evidence of the Bronze Age occupation and land-use patterns across this region of Dumfries and Galloway, where similar hut circles and associated remains indicate sustained prehistoric settlement of the Wigtownshire landscape.
Chlenry Hill, hut circle 780m ESE of Chlenry is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7516. View the official record →
Chlenry Hill hut circle is a prehistoric domestic structure situated 780 metres east-south-east of Chlenry in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7516.
Chlenry Hill, hut circle 780m ESE of Chlenry is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM7516.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Barsolus, fort 240m ESE of (5.2 km), Prehistoric and early medieval settlements, 260m NE of Fairfield (5.5 km), East Galdenoch, enclosures 100m SE of (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Chlenry Hill, hut circle 780m ESE of Chlenry's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Chlenry Hill, hut circle 780m ESE of Chlenry stands on Portpatrick Formation And Glenwhargen Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is wacke.