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Field Visit
Date 2 April 2009
Event ID 579838
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/579838
This building is situated close to foot of the SW flank of Quien Hill, on a steep SSE-facing slope overlooking the abandoned farmsteading of Quien 120m to the S (NS05NE 35). Rectangular on plan, it measures 5m from NE to SW by 2.9m transversely within faced rubble walls about 1m in thickness and standing up to 0.8m in height in four courses. It stands within a subrectangular enclosure measuring 25m from NE to SW by 17.5m transversely within a stone wall at least 1m in thickness and 0.8m in height. On the NW, the enclosure has been cut into the natural slope. There is little substantive evidence (other than proportions and orientation) that the building was an early chapel, and aerial photographs appear to show that the enclosure overlies the surrounding rig and furrow, some of which is depicted in cultivation on a late 18th century estate map (May 1780). The building is depicted (unroofed) within its enclosure on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCXV).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG, LD, GB) 2 April 2009.
