Publication drawing; Plan of East farmstead at Boyken Burn.

Description Publication drawing; Plan of East farmstead at Boyken Burn.

Date 1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DC 32278

Category Prints and Drawings

Copies SC 382763

Scope and Content Redrawn from DC 32489 for publication with comparative plans of medieval and later monuments. C on fig. 240. Plan showing buildings at Boyken Burn, Dumfries and Galloway At the entrance to the valley of the Boyken Burn are the remains of a post-medieval fermtoun, comprising at least three groups of building platforms. Each lies along the line of a dyke separating them from the ridged fields of the fermtoun. The plan shows several building platforms built end on into the slope, with a series of interconnected yards cut into the slope. The platforms likely represent the actual size of the turf-walled buildings which probably only had a single compartment. Prior to the mid-18th century, most tenant farmers and their families lived in fermtouns, a loose collection of dwellings, byres and barns surrounded by fields. The better land was used for arable crops, the poorer used for the communal grazing of stock. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Scale 1:500

Medium Ink on film

External Reference Inv. fig. 242

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