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Submitted by Anne T on Monday, 01 July 2019 Page Views: 1524

Multi-periodSite Name: Peter Hill Roundhouse (Whithorn)
Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Whithorn
Map Ref: NX4442440212
Latitude: 54.732741N Longitude: 4.417726W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

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1	Awful
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4 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Anne T visited on 18th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Peter Hill Roundhouse: Part of the visitor experience at the Whithorn Museum. We arrived just after a small guided tour had started. We asked if we could go round after the tour had finished, but were told we could only get in while there was an official guide there. I cheekily asked if we could join the tour for 10 minutes, and to my surprise, were allowed to go in. I was really surprised and impressed by the inside of the roundhouse - the compartments for privacy, the central fire pits, and the sheer amount of room within it. Shame we didn't have time for the full tour, but I was so keen to see the early Christian stones in the museum.

**Peter Hill Roundhouse (Whithorn)** submitted by Anne T : Submitted with the kind permission of The Whithorn Trust. The Peter Hill Roundhouse, located in a garden opposite the Museum buiding at Whithorn. Seen from the entrance to the garden. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ancient Village or Settlement in Dumfries and Galloway

Whilst the Peter Hill Roundhouse is part of Whithorn Museum, it deserves its own site page as an attraction/place to see in its own right.

Measuring 13 metres in diameter and 9 metres high, it was built by a team of volunteers in 2016/17 to "show how people lived in Galloway in the fifth century BC". For more information see the article which features in the Galloway News. The recreation of the roundhouse "was inspired by the discovery of a large Iron Age settlement at the Black Loch which was in such a good state of preservation that it was able to act as a 2,500 year old template."

Access to the Roundhouse is through a guided tour, included in the tickets for the Museum.
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NX4440 : The Iron Age Roundhouse, Whithorn by Billy McCrorie — by Billy McCrorie
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NX4440 : Roof of the Iron Age Roundhouse, Whithorn by Billy McCrorie — by Billy McCrorie
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NX4440 : Iron Age Roundhouse, Whithorn by Billy McCrorie — by Billy McCrorie
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NX4440 : Iron Age Roundhouse Museum, Whithorn by Billy McCrorie — by Billy McCrorie
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