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Glenwhan Moor is a Bronze Age settlement comprising scattered hut circles located on moorland 1000 metres north-east of Old Hall Farm in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. The site occupies rough, open ground underlain by Caradocian wacke bedrock of the Portpatrick and Glenwhargen Formations, which would have presented a challenging landscape for prehistoric communities. The hut circles represent domestic structures typical of the Bronze Age upland settlements that exploited the grazing and resources of the Galloway moorlands, forming part of a wider pattern of dispersed settlement in this region during the second millennium before Christ.
The monument is protected as a scheduled ancient monument under Historic Environment Scotland designation SM3841, reflecting its archaeological significance. The survival of multiple structural remains on this exposed moorland site provides evidence for settlement patterns and domestic organisation during the Bronze Age, though the harsh terrain and acidic soils have limited the preservation of organic remains that might otherwise illuminate daily life at the settlement.
Glenwhan Moor, hut circles 1000m NE of Old Hall Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3841. View the official record →
Glenwhan Moor is a Bronze Age settlement comprising scattered hut circles located on moorland 1000 metres north-east of Old Hall Farm in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3841.
Glenwhan Moor, hut circles 1000m NE of Old Hall Farm 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 SM3841.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Droughdool Mote, ritual mound (3.2 km), Prehistoric settlements, Fox Plantation (4.6 km), Unenclosed settlement, 1180m SE of Mark (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Glenwhan Moor, hut circles 1000m NE of Old Hall Farm'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.
Glenwhan Moor, hut circles 1000m NE of Old Hall Farm stands on Portpatrick Formation And Glenwhargen Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is wacke.