Scheduled monuments in Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway shown within Scotland

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	Location	Description	Ref No	Image
Little Hartfell Stone Circle	Hutton And Corrie	Remains of Neolithic/Bronze Age stone circle	SM636
Twelve Apostles Stone Circle	Holywood	Prehistoric stone circle	SM641
Burnswark Hill	Hoddom	Traces of fort and Roman camps	SM667
Auchen Castle	Moffat	Remains of Auchen Castle	SM683
Crichton Peel and Sanquhar Castle	Sanquhar	Ruined castle	SM687
Mote of Annan	Annan	Traces of 12th-century motte and bailey castle	SM702
Repentance Tower	Hoddom	Remains of an intact, roofed 17th-century watchtower	SM706
Tibbers Castle	Penpont	Remains of motte-and-bailey castle	SM711
Dumfries Old Bridge (Devorgilla Bridge)	Dumfries	Rebuilt 15th century bridge	SM715
Cairnderry chambered cairn	Minnigaff	Remains of cairn	SM1007
Glenquicken stone circle (Billy Diamond's Bridge stone circle)	Kirkmabreck	Remains of prehistoric stone circle	SM1023
High Banks Farm, cup and ring marks	Kirkcudbright	Cup and ring marked rocks	SM1028
Trusty's Hill	Anwoth	Fort and symbol stones	SM1100
Buittle Old Kirk	Buittle	Ruined church	SM1108
Buittle Castle	Buittle	Remains of medieval Balliol castle	SM1115
Castle Haven dun	Borgue	Restored dun	SM1116
Earlstoun Castle	St John's Town of Dalry	Tower house	SM1118
Plunton Castle	Borgue	16th-century tower house	SM1129
Doon Castle Broch	Stoneykirk, Rhins of Galloway	Remains of an iron-age broch (fortified roundhouse)	SM1970
Portpatrick old parish kirk	Portpatrick	Roofless church with round tower	SM2008
Dunskey Castle	Portpatrick	Ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house	SM2017
Galdenoch Castle	Leswalt	Ruined tower-house	SM2018
Old Tower of Sorbie	Sorbie	Ruined 16th-century tower-house	SM2024
Kirkcudbright Castle (MacLellan's Castle)	Kirkcudbright	Ruined 16th century castle	SM2459
Cruggleton Castle	Sorbie	Remains of medieval castle	SM3811
Edingham Castle	Dalbeattie	Ruined tower-house	SM6412
Soulseat Abbey	Inch, Wigtownshire	Mound and gravestones marking site of abbey on promontary in Soulseat Loch	SM7426
Kenmure Castle	Kells	Ruined 16th- and 17th-century courtyard house of the Gordons of Lochinvar	SM7743
Girthon Old Kirk	Girthon	Roofless 17th-century church	SM7868
Cumstoun Castle	Twynholm	Remains of 16th-century castle	SM8263
Dalton Old Parish Church	Dalton	Remains of Dalton old parish church	SM8676
Auchenskeock Castle	Colvend and Southwick, near Dalbeattie	17th-century tower house	SM10434
Whithorn Priory	Whithorn	Rremains of a large early historic monastic settlement	SM12992
Barsalloch Fort	Mochrum	Traces of prehistoric fort	SM90030
Caerlaverock Castles (Old and New)	Caerlaverock	Ruined castles	SM90046
Cairn Holy I	Kirkmabreck	Chambered cairn	SM90049
Cairn Holy II	Kirkmabreck	Chambered cairn	SM90050
Cardoness Castle	Anwoth	Ruined tower house	SM90058
Carsluith Castle	Kirkmabreck	Ruined L-plan tower-house	SM90062
Drumcoltran Tower	Kirkgunzeon	16th century tower-house	SM90100
Drumtroddan cup markings	Mochrum	Cup and ring-marked rocks	SM90101
Drumtroddan standing stones	Mochrum	3 standing stones	SM90102
Dundrennan Abbey	Dundrennan	Ruined 12th-century abbey	SM90114
Glenluce Abbey	Old Luce	Ruined 12th century Cistercian abbey	SM90153
Kirkmadrine Church	Stoneykirk	Old parish church of Kirkmadrine and early gravestones	SM90192
Lincluden Collegiate Church	Terregles, near Dumfries	Remains of a Collegiate Church	SM90200
Lochmaben Castle	Lochmaben	Ruined 13th/14th-century peel and castle	SM90205
Orchardton Tower	Buittle	Remains of late 15th-century circular tower house	SM90233
Rispain Camp	Whithorn	Earthworks of late Iron Age fort	SM90248
Sweetheart Abbey	New Abbey	Remains of 13th-century Cistercian Abbey	SM90293
Threave Castle	Balmaghie	Remains of 14th century tower-house	SM90301
Torhouse Stone Circle	Wigtown	Prehistoric stone circle	SM90304
Wren's Egg	Glasserton, Wigtownshire	Standing stones	SM90316

See also

• List of Category A listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway