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Field Visit
Date June 2010 - July 2010
Event ID 1007356
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1007356
ND 298 498: The NMRS notes that a farmstead comprising one unroofed building, three roofed buildings, an enclosure and a length of wall appears on the 1st Edition of the OS 6-inch map. Field survey found the Achairn cottage complex to consist of three roofed and inhabited/in use buildings surrounded by a wire fence. Situated 12m from the south-east corner of
the modern fence lay a collapsed dyke consisting of an overgrown spread
of large stones, 0.2m high and 22m in length. The collapsed dyke runs
north-south and is parallel to a shallow ditch to the west and a modern
filed boundary to the east. Three largely overgrown probable clearance
cairns, all measuring 3m in diameter, are situated to the south of Achairn
cottage. Another cairn is located next to the trackway leading to the
cottage, measuring 4m in diameter and 0.4m in height. It is less
overgrown than the other cairns and so is likely to be of less antiquity.
Information from Stuart Mitchell (CFA Archaeology Ltd) July 2010. OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-79560 (No.63).
