Field Visit
Date 18 March 1981
Event ID 650666
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/650666
NC70SW 35 7467 0205.
(NC 7467 0205) Stone Circles (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1971)
This is a homestead on an exposed rise in high ground. It is sub-circular, and measures approximately 13.0m across within a wall ranging in thickness from 1.4m to 1.6m, and distinguished by a fairly complete inner face, up to 0.7m high, of contiguous slabs. There is an entrance in the south south east. Encircling the homestead at a distance of 4.0m to 9.0m are the remains of a wall; in the east margin between the homestead and this wall, and outside the latter in the north west, are further walling remains. Extending from the north east sector of the encircling wall in a sinuous north west direction, is the peat covered course of a field wall. A stony mound overlies the homestead wall in the north. Some 15.0m south south east down the slope is what appears to be another homestead, but it is almost certainly later, probably contemporary with a deserted post Medieval settlement to the east. It comprises a 'D' shaped enclosure 10.0m by 7.0m internally, and recessed in the straight north side. A sub circular enclosure measuring 4.0m across internally abuts on the east, and no entrance is evident in either. The walling is of boulder slab construction but is now mainly visible as a peat covered spread 1.0m to 1.3m broad and up to 0.5m high. About 25.0m west is a sub oval enclosure of similar mature appearance but slight build, it measures 9.5m by 3.5m within a peat covered wall spread from 0.7m to 0.8m and 0.2m high. It too may be associated with the neighbouring settlement.
Planned at 1:500.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 18 March 1981.
