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638:(0.15–0.5 mm (5.9–19.7 mils)) and decorated around its edges with incised and punched zigzags, lines and dots. It had been cut up and folded, and the two pieces do not join; together they amount to just under a third of the original collar. Initial surface analysis has shown that the metal contains 11% silver and 0.5% copper. Further analysis may indicate whether the lunula had been made of Irish or Scottish gold. Staff of
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Wigtownshire has been one of the mooted locations for a proposed bridge or tunnel linking
Britain and Ireland. A 2010 report by the Centre for Cross Border Studies estimated building a bridge from Galloway to Ulster would cost just under £20.5 billion.
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243:, and Norse and Gaelic-Norse settlement names from the 10th and 11th centuries are spread all along the coastal lands of south-western Scotland. These coastal lands became the sub-kingdom or semi-autonomous
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683:, this huge monument was a ceremonial centre and a meeting place for south-west Scotland's early farming communities. Funding for the dig was provided by Historic Scotland and the
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has revealed the remains of three massive concentric timber circles; the outer circle was 300 metres (980 ft) in diameter, almost six times the size of
Stonehenge. Built
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Scotland". The relics range from neolithic to mediaeval times.
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on 22 May 1890, when it was decided to hold the council's annual meeting each May at
Wigtown, but other meetings were to be held alternately at
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being the county's tallest peak at a modest 322 m (1,056 ft). The western 'hammer-head' peninsula of
Wigtownshire is known as
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commissioned a geophysical survey. No more metalwork was found, nor any evidence for why the lunula might have been buried there.
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Wigtown district covered all of the former administrative county of Wigtownshire plus the two parishes of
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1154:(1845–1937) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist, grandfather of Gavin Maxwell.
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was placed under the control of a steward and so became known as the
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walked the field looking for artefacts. Test pits were dug and
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1108:(1801–1851), entrepreneur and politician in Australia
1922:. Museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk. 29 September 2012
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Cruggleton and Eggerness: merged into Sorbie in 1635
1209:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 1
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1607:. Discoveringdgpast.wordpress.com. 26 June 2012
539:. These services formerly left from Stranraer.
1972:by Samuel Lewis, 1846 (British History Online)
1740:"Dumfries and Galloway Excavations: Home Page"
2018:
1018:, Stranraer, now a Visitor Centre and museum.
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225:The 11th-century ex-King of Dublin and Mann,
1547:"Stranraer harbour bids farewell to ferries"
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1976:List of Wigtownshire parishes in 1684
1693:"Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire"
1192:. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). 1911.
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79:487 sq mi (1,261 km)
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1585:. The Scotsman. 17 May 2016
1469:. Stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk
1343:. 6 June 1972. p. 499.
1203:Learmonth, William (1920).
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644:University of the Third Age
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156:registration county
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1900:on 5 February 2021
1822:sites.rootsweb.com
1673:. Wigtownshire U3A
1671:"Wigtownshire U3A"
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