Excavation
NT 1085 2958 Excavation has begun on this site to determine its period of occupation period. At the time of writing part of a lime-mortared random rubble building c4m wide internally and with an entrance in the northern long wall has been exposed. The walls measure 1.2m in thickness and therefore indicate a building
of 17th-century or earlier date. A floor surface of roughly placed stones includes part of a byre drain that discharged through the doorway. Fragments of red sandstone may indicate the use of dressed stonework. Apart from relatively modern items, part of an 18th-century tobacco pipe bowl and fragments of green glazed
pottery have been found. This project will investigate a series of buildings in the area. Survey shows a sheep farm with enclosures and a series of milking buchts, but the building may prove to a bastle or a tower house.
