Field Visit
Date May 1983
Event ID 1147148
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147148
Guirdil 1 NG318011 NG30SW
The remains of five rectangular buildings, varying in size from at least 8m by 3m to 4.5m by 2m within turf-covered stone wall-footings, are situated on the SW side of Glen Guirdil, 200m SW of the ruinous cottages on the shore. There are extensive traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation on the lower slopes of the glen. This is probably one of the 'little hamlets' noted by Pennant in 1772 and is depicted on Langlands's map in 1801; it may have been abandoned by 1824, when Thomson's map places Guirdil on the NE side of the river (see NG30SW 8).
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(Pennant 1774, 278; Langlands 1801; Thomson 1824)
