Field Visit
Date 21 March 1994
Event ID 748004
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/748004
NX55NE 61 572 centred on 580
Two sub-rectangular shieling-huts (Cree94 130, 131) are situated on the N edge of a group of at least twelve small cairns scattered across a well-drained ridge to the SE of Kenlum Hill. The larger of the huts (Cree94 131) measures 4.7m by 3m within boulder footings 0.6m in thickness and 0.4m in height and banks extend from either side of the entrance to form a baffle. The huts are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Kirkcudbrightshire 1854, sheet 43) as unroofed and labelled as 'Old Fences'. What may be a further hut, measuring 3m in diameter overall (NX 5738 5787; Cree94 373), is situated on a terrace to the SE of the two huts.
The small cairns measure up to 4m in diameter and 0.4m in height, while the cultivation ridges measure between 3m and 4m between furrows and lie to the W of most of the cairns, possibly post-dating them.
(Cree94 130, 131, 373)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 21 March 1994
