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.
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 Name LocationDescription Ref NoImage Little Hartfell Stone Circle Hutton And Corrie Remains of Neolithic/Bronze Age stone circle Twelve Apostles Stone Circle Holywood Prehistoric stone circle Burnswark Hill Hoddom Traces of fort and Roman camps Auchen Castle Moffat Remains of Auchen Castle Crichton Peel and Sanquhar Castle Sanquhar Ruined castle Mote of Annan Annan Traces of 12th-century motte and bailey castle Repentance Tower Hoddom Remains of an intact, roofed 17th-century watchtower Tibbers Castle Penpont Remains of motte-and-bailey castle Dumfries Old Bridge (Devorgilla Bridge) Dumfries Rebuilt 15th century bridge Cairnderry chambered cairn Minnigaff Remains of cairn Glenquicken stone circle (Billy Diamond's Bridge stone circle) Kirkmabreck Remains of prehistoric stone circle High Banks Farm, cup and ring marks Kirkcudbright Cup and ring marked rocks Trusty's Hill Anwoth Fort and symbol stones Buittle Old Kirk Buittle Ruined church Buittle Castle Buittle Remains of medieval Balliol castle Castle Haven dun Borgue Restored dun Earlstoun Castle St John's Town of Dalry Tower house Plunton Castle Borgue 16th-century tower house Doon Castle Broch Stoneykirk, Rhins of Galloway Remains of an iron-age broch (fortified roundhouse) Portpatrick old parish kirk Portpatrick Roofless church with round tower Dunskey Castle Portpatrick Ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house Galdenoch Castle Leswalt Ruined tower-house Old Tower of Sorbie Sorbie Ruined 16th-century tower-house Kirkcudbright Castle (MacLellan's Castle) Kirkcudbright Ruined 16th century castle Cruggleton Castle Sorbie Remains of medieval castle Edingham Castle Dalbeattie Ruined tower-house Soulseat Abbey Inch, Wigtownshire Mound and gravestones marking site of abbey on promontary in Soulseat Loch Kenmure Castle Kells Ruined 16th- and 17th-century courtyard house of the Gordons of Lochinvar Girthon Old Kirk Girthon Roofless 17th-century church Cumstoun Castle Twynholm Remains of 16th-century castle Dalton Old Parish Church Dalton Remains of Dalton old parish church Auchenskeock Castle Colvend and Southwick, near Dalbeattie 17th-century tower house Whithorn Priory Whithorn Remains of a large early historic monastic settlement Barsalloch Fort Mochrum Traces of prehistoric fort Caerlaverock Castles (Old and New) Caerlaverock Ruined castles Cairn Holy I Kirkmabreck Chambered cairn Cairn Holy II Kirkmabreck Chambered cairn Cardoness Castle Anwoth Ruined tower house Carsluith Castle Kirkmabreck Ruined L-plan tower-house Drumcoltran Tower Kirkgunzeon 16th-century tower-house Drumtroddan cup markings Mochrum Cup and ring-marked rocks Drumtroddan standing stones Mochrum 3 standing stones Dundrennan Abbey Dundrennan Ruined 12th-century abbey Glenluce Abbey Old Luce Ruined 12th century Cistercian abbey Kirkmadrine Church Stoneykirk Old parish church of Kirkmadrine and early gravestones Lincluden Collegiate Church Terregles, near Dumfries Remains of a Collegiate Church Lochmaben Castle Lochmaben Ruined 13th/14th-century peel and castle Orchardton Tower Buittle Remains of late 15th-century circular tower house Rispain Camp Whithorn Earthworks of late Iron Age fort Sweetheart Abbey New Abbey Remains of 13th-century Cistercian Abbey Threave Castle Balmaghie Remains of 14th-century tower-house Torhouse Stone Circle Wigtown Prehistoric stone circle Wren's EggGlasserton, WigtownshireStanding stones
See also List of Category A listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway
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