Forts
Rev. George Wilson in Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to Ayrshire and Galloway. vol.V. p. 63. lists forts in New Luce :
- 1. Cruise Back Fell, fort marked on the map as two cairns, 80 ft long on the Fell of Cruise or High Galdenoch.
- 2a. Gleniron Several fort with a cluster of green rings, and a large ditch and mote.
- 2b. Mid Gleniron
- 2c. Mid Gleniron tomb the long cairn had enclosed an earlier smaller one.
- 3. Garvilland Iron-age hill fort on the Bennan, double at the one end and with hut circles.
- 4. Klashherne, two rings, and three more, not on O.S. map. ( perhaps Bught Fell )
- 5. Balmurrie, ring with two hut circles. ( perhaps Cairn na Gath )
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