Allt Clais Fhearnaig
Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Allt Clais Fhearnaig
Classification Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mar Lodge Estate; Glen Quoich
Canmore ID 81253
Site Number NO09SE 9
NGR NO 0793 9374
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81253
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Field Visit (8 June 1993)
There are ten subrectangular shieling huts situated on the first terrace above the haughland to the W of the Quoich Water where the Allt Clais Fhearnaig joins Glen Quoich. The huts measure from 2.9m to 7.3m in length by between 1.6m and 2.5m across, within heather-covered, faced-rubble footings up to 1.1m in thickness or stony banks. A grassy mound adjacent to one of the huts (MAR93 177) may be a midden. Hut (MAR93 177) appears to be built on the remains of an earlier structure. Irregular hollows amongst the huts, in particular in the W half of the site, may be tree-throws.
Farquharson's map of the Forrest of Mar (1703) (National Library of Scotland) depicts three open circles to either side of a burn to the N of the confluence of the Quoich Water and the Allt an Dubh-Ghleann.
(MAR93 176-185)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 8 June 1993.
Field Visit (4 July 2015 - 30 July 2015)
NO 079 937 (centred on) Two surveys were carried out, 4–30 July 2015, in the Mar Lodge Estate. A survey of the Dee tributaries riparian planting area took place in advance of proposed tree planting within regeneration areas along watercourses in the western portion of the estate. No finds or features of archaeological significance were recorded. The post-hurricane Bertha condition survey examined key sites within the estate which were potentially damaged by Hurricane Bertha (early August 2014), which temporarily flooded large portions of estate and caused major damage to a number of tracks and footbridges. The survey did not record any new features, despite heavy levels of erosion sustained along the main watercourses. However, eight prehistoric flints in the form of blades and debitage were recorded and collected from the footpath leading to the Chest of Dee, one of two known Mesolithic sites within the estate (Canmore ID 267763, NO 0170 8855).
Archive: National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE)
Funder: The National Trust for Scotland
Robert Lenfert - Cameron Archaeology
(Source: DES, Volume 16)