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Field Visit
Date 22 July 1993
Event ID 623937
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/623937
Six huts, a pen, a stock enclosure and what may be a sheep-dip are scattered over a distance of 350m along the level-ground on the W bank of the Geldie Burn between the track and the river.
The huts range in size from 2.5m to 6.6m in length and by 1.35m to 2.6m in breadth within walls 0.6m to 0.75m in thickness and up to 0.7m in height. Two of the huts are notable for their construction, comprising rubble-faced walls, embanked upon the outside by turf (MAR93 555, 560). One (MAR93 555), which is subdivided into two unequal compartments by a stone partition, has an outshot on its NE end and, like two others (MAR93 558, 563), has a midden heap adjacent to it. A small sub-square pen constructed of turf on a stone base lies about 10m to the N (MAR93 556). The stock enclosure, roughly rectangular on plan, lies on the edge of a terrace at the NE end of the site and measures 14.4m from NE to SW by 10.4m transversely within rubble-faced walls reduced to 0.3m in height; it overlies two huts one to the SW and the other to the NE (MAR93 561-2).
The sheep-dip comprises a low ramp (0.3m in height) leading to two rows of flat boulders 16m in length and about 1.7m apart, which may have supported a timber passage. At the SE end is a pit, 3.1m in length by 2.2m in breadth and about 0.5m in depth with some rubble at the bottom. A rectilinear stand of cobbles, which measures 8.3m from SW to NE by 3.2m transversely, is situated to the SW of the pit and may have served as a drying stance for the dipped sheep. The sheep-dip has similarities with the site at NO08NW 19.07.
(MAR93 555-63)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 22 July 1993.
