Field Visit

Date November 2012

Event ID 1020475

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1020475

As part of a cultural heritage statement CFA Archaeology Ltd undertook field survey to assess the present baseline condition of the known archaeology and heritage features identified through a desk-based assessment as well as to identify any further features of historic environment interest not detected from the deskbased assessment; as well as areas with the potential to contain currently unrecorded buried archaeological remains.

Field survey recorded the farmstead on a south-facing slope surviving in fair condition. The easternmost building is gable-ended and measures 23 m by 7m and is divided into three compartments. The building is defined by dry-stone walls 1m wide by 0.4 m-1.2 m high, with an entrance 1m wide on the western side. It is attached to an enclosure measuring 19m by 3m internally with walls 1m wide and 0.8 m-1m high and is terraced into the slope. The second building, to the west, measures 8m by 8m and is defined by walls tumbled out to 2.5m in places and measuring 0.6 m-1.2 m high, with an entrance on the east. This building is attached to a

larger, less well preserved enclosure, 40m by 30m internally defined by walls 1 m-1.5 m wide and 0.4 m-0.6m high.

Roy’ map (1747-55) depicts a farmstead annotated ‘Corlick’, shown with cultivation to the west and south. Ainslie (1796, 1821) also depicts ‘Corlick’. The Ordnance Survey 2nd (1898), 3rd (1915) and 4th (1947) edition maps, and the 2001 edition depict the farmstead as comprising two unroofed buildings and two enclosures.

Information from Helena Gray (CFA Archaeology Ltd) July 2014. OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-263967, no.15