Scheduled monuments in Dumfries and Galloway
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A scheduled monument in Scotland is a nationally important archaeological site or monument which is given legal protection by being placed on a list (or "schedule") maintained by Historic Environment Scotland. The aim of scheduling is to preserve the country's most significant sites and monuments as far as possible in the form in which they have been inherited.{{cite web|url=https://www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support/listing-scheduling-and-designations/scheduled-monuments/what-is-scheduling/|title=What is scheduling?|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|accessdate=2 September 2017}}
The process of scheduling is governed by the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which aims "to make provision for the investigation, preservation and recording of matters of archaeological or historical interest". The term "scheduled monument" can apply to the whole range of archaeological sites which have been deliberately constructed by human activity but are not always visible above ground. They range from prehistoric standing stones and burial sites, through Roman remains and medieval structures such as castles and monasteries, to later structures such as industrial sites and buildings constructed for the World Wars. Some buildings or structures which were both scheduled and listed have had their listing designations removed to reduce the duplication.
In 2017 there were 8238 scheduled monuments in Scotland.
Notable Scheduled Monuments in Dumfries and Galloway
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! Name ! Location ! class="unsortable"|Description ! Ref No ! class="unsortable"|Image |
| Little Hartfell Stone Circle
| Hutton And Corrie | Remains of Neolithic/Bronze Age stone circle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM636|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Twelve Apostles Stone Circle
| Holywood | Prehistoric stone circle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM641|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Burnswark Hill
| Hoddom | Traces of fort and Roman camps | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM667|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Auchen Castle
| Moffat | Remains of Auchen Castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM683|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Crichton Peel and Sanquhar Castle
| Sanquhar | Ruined castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM687|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Mote of Annan
| Annan | Traces of 12th-century motte and bailey castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM702|short=yes}} | |
| Repentance Tower
| Hoddom | Remains of an intact, roofed 17th-century watchtower | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM706|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Tibbers Castle
| Penpont | Remains of motte-and-bailey castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM711|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Dumfries Old Bridge (Devorgilla Bridge)
| Dumfries | Rebuilt 15th century bridge | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM715|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Cairnderry chambered cairn
| Remains of cairn | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1007|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Glenquicken stone circle (Billy Diamond's Bridge stone circle)
| Remains of prehistoric stone circle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1023|short=yes}} | 100px |
| High Banks Farm, cup and ring marks
| Cup and ring marked rocks | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1028|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Trusty's Hill
| Anwoth | Fort and symbol stones | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1100|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Buittle Old Kirk
| Buittle | Ruined church | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1108|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Buittle Castle
| Buittle | Remains of medieval Balliol castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1115|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Castle Haven dun
| Borgue | Restored dun | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1116|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Earlstoun Castle
| Tower house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1118|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Plunton Castle
| Borgue | 16th-century tower house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1129|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Doon Castle Broch
| Stoneykirk, Rhins of Galloway | Remains of an iron-age broch (fortified roundhouse) | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1970|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Portpatrick old parish kirk
| Roofless church with round tower | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM2008|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Dunskey Castle
| Ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM2017|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Galdenoch Castle
| Leswalt | Ruined tower-house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM2018|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Old Tower of Sorbie
| Sorbie | Ruined 16th-century tower-house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM2024|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Kirkcudbright Castle (MacLellan's Castle)
| Ruined 16th century castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM2459|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Cruggleton Castle
| Sorbie | Remains of medieval castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM3811|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Edingham Castle
| Ruined tower-house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM6412|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Soulseat Abbey
| Mound and gravestones marking site of abbey on promontary in Soulseat Loch | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM7426|short=yes}} | |
| Kenmure Castle
| Kells | Ruined 16th- and 17th-century courtyard house of the Gordons of Lochinvar | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM7743|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Girthon Old Kirk
| Girthon | Roofless 17th-century church | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM7868|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Cumstoun Castle
| Twynholm | Remains of 16th-century castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM8263|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Dalton Old Parish Church
| Dalton | Remains of Dalton old parish church | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM8676|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Auchenskeock Castle
| Colvend and Southwick, near Dalbeattie | 17th-century tower house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM10434|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Whithorn Priory
| Whithorn | Remains of a large early historic monastic settlement | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM12992|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Barsalloch Fort
| Mochrum | Traces of prehistoric fort | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90030|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Caerlaverock Castles (Old and New)
| Ruined castles | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90046|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Cairn Holy I
| Chambered cairn | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90049|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Cairn Holy II
| Chambered cairn | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90050|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Cardoness Castle
| Anwoth | Ruined tower house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90058|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Carsluith Castle
| Ruined L-plan tower-house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90062|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Drumcoltran Tower
| 16th-century tower-house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90100|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Drumtroddan cup markings
| Mochrum | Cup and ring-marked rocks | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90101|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Drumtroddan standing stones
| Mochrum | 3 standing stones | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90102|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Dundrennan Abbey
| Ruined 12th-century abbey | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90114|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Glenluce Abbey
| Old Luce | Ruined 12th century Cistercian abbey | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90153|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Kirkmadrine Church
| Old parish church of Kirkmadrine and early gravestones | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90192|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Lincluden Collegiate Church
| Terregles, near Dumfries | Remains of a Collegiate Church | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90200|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Lochmaben Castle
| Ruined 13th/14th-century peel and castle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90205|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Orchardton Tower
| Buittle | Remains of late 15th-century circular tower house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90233|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Rispain Camp
| Whithorn | Earthworks of late Iron Age fort | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90248|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Sweetheart Abbey
| Remains of 13th-century Cistercian Abbey | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90293|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Threave Castle
| Remains of 14th-century tower-house | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90301|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Torhouse Stone Circle
| Wigtown | Prehistoric stone circle | {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90304|short=yes}} | 100px |
| Wren's Egg
|Standing stones |{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90316|short=yes|desc=|access-date=10 November 2019}} |File:Wren's Egg and Nest, bronze age cists, Blairbuy Farm.jpg |
