Place of Significant Interest
From Glenluce Sands there have been recovered "more objects of antiquity than from any area of similar extent in Scotland". The relics range from neolithic to mediaeval times.
Details of the Lake Dwellings (Crannogs) of Wigtownshire and other archaeological finds are in Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to Ayrshire and Galloway. vol.V. pp.74-124 and forts pp.62–73 and vol.III
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