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Field Visit
Date 7 December 1993
Event ID 553182
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/553182
There is a group of shieling-huts; an enclosure, a Pitcarmick-type building, a fragmentary field-system, and rig and some small cairns on a rise between two unnamed tributaries on the SW of the Ballinloan Burn. The site is bisected from NE to SW by a stone dyke, and the majority of the buildings lie in the lee slope of the hill to the SE of the dyke.
The shielings-huts are subrectangular, most are constructed of turf and stone, and they range in size from 4m to 10.4m in length by betweem 4.6m and 6.8m in breadth over walls spread to between 1.2m and 1.6m in thickness and 0.2m to 0.5m in height. Only one (Braan93 245) shows any signs of sub-division with two compartments.
The Pitcarmick-type building (Braan93 244), which has three compartments, measures 27.8m from WNW to ESE by 6.5m transversely, over turf and stone walls 0.3m in height and spread up to 2m in thickness.The building cuts a small cairn on the N and in the interior the floor of the central chamber is lower than the other two. The enclosure, which is roughly circular with a faceted E side and a hut built over its NW arc, measures 13.5m from NNW to SSE by 12m transversely over stony banks spread to 2.5m in thickness and 0.4m high (Braan93 246).
On the date of visit, such was the vegetational difference between the burnt-off ground to the SW of the dyke and the deep heather to the NE that it was difficult to compare the visible cultivation remains. To the NW of the dyke there is about 1ha of sinuous rig, which runs downslope from SE to NW, ranging in width from 3m to 5m by up to 100m in length. The furrows of the rig cut through the small cairns in several instances and there are traces of banks which may mark the remains of an earlier field-system. Fragments of banks are also visible on the SE of the dyke, including a bank about 150m long that runs along the S of the site, dividing it from the boggy ground beyond, and there are traces of small plots in the area where the huts are located.
(Braan93 244-249, 350-354, 451)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 7 December 1993
