Field Visit
Date November 1980
Event ID 1137580
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1137580
Unthank NY 389 948 NY39SE 5
In 1718 the farmstead of Unthank lay on a spur 270m ENE of the modern farmhouse of that name. It was abandoned before 1810, when an estate map records its site as 'Oldtown Park', and its remains now comprise a group of four rectangular buildings (the best preserved measuring 14.2m by 3.6m internally and divided into two compartments) adjacent to at least three enclosures. A roughly oval scooped area underlying these remains suggests the possibility of an earlier settlement on the site.
RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980
(SRO, RHP 9629; NMRS, DFD/155/1; Radford and Reid 1959)
