Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679439

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN93NW 4 9072 3575.

Cultivation terraces exist between the farmhouse of Girron and the main road.

A Graham 1939

NN 907 356. Centred around the steading at Girron (visible on RAF air photograph 541/A/477/F20: 3413) are many cultivation terraces which vary from 4.5m to 9.0m wide and which stand to 1.4m high.

Visited by OS (J P) 6 November 1970.

As described in the previous field report.

Visited by OS (B S) 15 October 1975.

From RAF air photograph and ground evidence there appears to be five distinct though minor areas of cultivation terraces, the largest and best preserved being of approximately 5 hectares centred at NN 9072 3575. They are combined and somewhat confused with clearance strips and boundary banks of more than one phase, and some may be late in origin. Two structures were found in these areas; a sub-circular probable shieling in area NN 906 359, and a stone and earth banked enclosure 14.0m in diameter in area NN 9066 3554. It appears to have a collapsed entrance on the S side and may be a sheepfold associated with boundary banks nearby.

Visited by OS (J R L) 13 March 1979.

What may be a township, comprising five roofed, three unroofed buildings and four enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxxi). Two roofed buildings, one partially roofed building and three unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 4 February 1998.

A series of small mounds covering an area 100m by 80m some 240m S of Girron farmsteading has been recorded by aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1996). Centred on NN 9089 3553, they may be small cairns associated with field clearance and lie immediately to the S and E of cultivation terraces.

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 8 January 2000