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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 730287
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/730287
NX86SE 10 856 623.
There is evidence of depopulation in the area SE of Barclosh (centred NX 856 623) consisting of numerous buildings, probable field clearance heaps, and four corn-drying kilns situated: (i) c. 90 yards SE of Barclosh farm steading and 40 yards from the road, (ii) 286 yards further S, and 55 yards on the other side of the parish road, (iii) c. 90 yards SW of (ii), near to the parish road; and (iv) in the adjoining plantation.
W J Maxwell 1890
Centred NX 856 621. The depopulation around Barclosh extends over an undulating area of approximately 12 hectares and possibly represents a near-continuous sequence of occupation from the ?16th century (Barclosh Castle - See NX86SE 1) to the present.
Several domestic structures, rectangular and oval in shape, survive as turf-covered rubble footings. They are irregularly interspersed amongst tumbled boundary walls, plots of rig and furrow and associated clearance heaps. Of the four corn-drying kilns, two are in reasonable condition with annexe building footings.
The apparent successions of occupation in this area leave no coherent pattern of settlement.
Visited by OS (JRL) 27 January 1978.
A township, comprising one unroofed building, six unroofed structures annotated 'Hay Ree'. 'Old Sheep Ree' or 'Sheep Ree', two circular structures annotated 'Old Corn Kiln' and a field-system annotated 'Old Fences' is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Kirkcudbrightshire 1854, sheet 40). One unroofed structure is shown on the OS 1:10000 map (1981).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 28 June 2000.
