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Field Visit
Date 31 May 1991
Event ID 751277
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/751277
NS86NW 15.01 centred 8320 6579
This farmstead is situated on a well-drained terrace and comprises what has probably been a byre-house set within an enclosure. The building (CSW 4350) measures 28.3m from ENE to WSW by 4.4m transversely within a rubble-faced wall 0.7m thick and up to 1.5m high. Two original entrances, with dressed jambs, provide access, from the SSE, to the domestic part of the building (the two westernmost compartments) and the byre, lying at the WSW and ENE ends of the building respectively. There are windows to either side of the entrance in to the domestic part of the building and a fireplace in the WSW end. The ENE compartment has a secondary partition inserted at its W end, creating a narrow compartment, within which the SSE and NNW walls have been breached, forming a through-passage. The building is shown as unroofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, 1859, sheet ix). What may be a midden is situated on the flat ground to the W of the building; it measures about 4m in diameter and 0.4m in height.
The enclosure around the building has two distinct phases; a turf-and-stone banked enclosure running around both sides of the building, which is succeeded by a smaller stone-walled enclosure on the S side of the building. Some 60m to the SE, a number of conjoined earth-and-stone enclosures are also succeeded by a stone-walled enclosure. The stone-walled enclosures are joined by an earth-and-stone wall which extends to the N and E of the building and forms the latest phase of enclosure on the hill (see also NS86NW 15.03).
Two conjoined enclosures are situated on a terrace some 80m NE of the farmstead, with a trackway running past on the W and leading into the enclosure on the N side of the building.
A hut (CSW 4675), measuring 4.9m by 3.2m within a turf bank 1.3m in thickness and 0.4m in height, is levelled into the side of a ridge to the WSW of the building.
(CSW 4350, 4675)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 31 May 1991
