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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 669256
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/669256
NJ71NE 83 796 187
The well-defined remains of rig and furrow lie on a S facing slope to the W of Spy Far cottage and on either side of the track from Admurdo House. The rigs, which are better defined in the E half of the field, are bounded by a stream to the W and S. A tumbled and overgrown drystone dyke, now standing to a height of c. 7 5cm delimits the N extent of the rigs: it does not follow the modern field boundary, which lies further N. The lower courses of this dyke are well-defined on the N face, but the dyke has collapsed almost completely to the W, where it can just be traced for a further 20m beyond the stream which forms the boundary of the rigs.
Among the rigs at the W end is a small clearance cairn of granite boulders, c. 1.5m in diameter. A similar, larger cairn, c. 5m long and 1.5m wide, lies on the E side of the E boundary fence, at the limit of the rigs. Both the track and the cottage presumably postdate the rigs, since the track bisects them.
A J Russell 1981.
Air photographs: AAS/81/1/R1/8-13, flown 8 January 1981 and AAS/88/07/S14/6, flown 3 August 1988.
NMRS, MS/712/67.
An area of rig-and-furrow is visible in unimproved pasture immediately NW of Spyfar farmsteading (NJ71NE 227); a few small cairns can also be seen, but they are probably no more than clearance heaps associated with the rig.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 9 September 1998.
