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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 700066
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/700066
NS36NE 6 3693 6884.
(NS 3693 6884) Homestead (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
Excavations by Newall revealed that this was a typical farmstead, datable to the 14th - 15th centuries, with a barn, granary, flour store and house-cum-byre on the raised terrace and accommodation for animals in a yard. On an incline, two levels have been made up rather than scooped, within a 94ft yard, walled by boulder-faced rubble, 8ft wide.
A raised terrace on the W overlooks a lower yard entered at the NE. To the W of the entrance, heavy walling is broken by a gap leading up to the terrace on which is a vestigial house 25ft across with, beside it, a semi-circular hollow perhaps outlining a hut.
F Newall 1964; 1961
A circular enclosure built up above ground level on its S side. It measures some 26.5m in diameter. It had been formed by a stone wall now reduced to a stony scarp, maximum height 2.0m on the S side and reduced to a slight bank on either side of the well-defined entrance in the NE. The maximum interior height of the bank to the S of the entrance is about 0.8m. The N half of the interior W of the entrance is occupied by a raised terrace outlined by a slight stony scarp 0.4m high. No surveyable traces of any other interior features were seen.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 May 1964
