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Date 2009

Event ID 1022596

Category Project

Type Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022596

Between the 31st August and 2nd September 2009, the RCAHMS Commissioners were taken to visit a number of significant sites recently recorded by the staff on the isle of Bute and Ayrshire. To inform this trip an illustrated guide was prepared with a brief summary description of each site, and an introductory text. These short site descriptions were entered into the Canmore database in 2017, but readers are advised to consult the final publication for the most detailed account.

Information from HES (LCK) 30 May 2017

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1019600	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	Dun Scalpsie is one of four duns on Bute and it forms part of the Scalpsie Bay archaeological landscape group. Dun Scalpsie sits on a prominent geological feature, occupying a commanding position over Scalpsie Bay and is comparable with the other dun sites recorded across Argyll in the RCAHMS Inventories. The surrounding landscape features include Thom’s Cut and its associated footbridges, World War II glider traps on Scalpsie beach, pre-Improvement and Improvement period farmsteads, an early medieval chapel site and two burial cairns. [...]	2009
1019602	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	The position of the cairn, its sheer size and the large stones found within the body of the cairn are part of the reason why it has not been entirely removed by agricultural agencies. The location of the cairn is depicted on the May map of 1784, showing an area of ‘grass’, amongst ploughed fields. [...]	2009
1019604	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	Lubas Farm is situated in the south west of Bute, in pasture fields 1km north of Dunagoil and 500m east from Lubas Bay. It is a good example of a smaller farm, relatively unspoilt, which retains slate roofs and patterns of fenestration from its early nineteenth century reconstruction. The tenant will be vacating the property in November and it may be refurbished by the estate. An estate map of ‘Lubaz’ by Foulis in 1758–9 depicted two groups of buildings flanking a road. Much later, and after reconstruction, the 1869 Ordnance Survey map showed the three bay farmhouse, more like a cottage in proportions and size, with a long range aligned north and south,attached to the east gable, and yards and garden to the north and west. Across the old road to the east there was another, longer and higher range, this time with a stepped ridge. By 1897 a single storey south range was added between the earlier two forming a U-plan courtyard, and the road to Dunagoil and Garrochty was moved to the east to skirt the farm. It was later developed with the addition of two horse gins and another range to the south west before 1919; larger sheds were built to the west in the later twentieth century. Importantly, the buildings retain a sense of the proportions, layout and workings of a small nineteenth century Bute farm; surviving boarded doors, sash and case windows and slit openings are characteristic details which may be lost during a restoration project. [...]	2009

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