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Field Visit
Date 20 May 1997
Event ID 785768
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/785768
NS89NW 80.01 centred on 8425 9782
A field-system of two distinct phases occupies the ground to the N of an unnamed tributary of the Menstrie Burn. A substantial earth and stone head-dyke runs approximately N to S along the W side of the field-systems. This may be the feature referred to as the old head-dyke in a tack of 1740 (Tack to Andrew Roy of Foreside and Quarterside, SRO, RH 15/115/1/2 bundle G). The S end of the head-dyke lies at a cliff top (NS 8419 9750), while to the N it swings round to the E (NS 8418 9792) and stops just short of a head-dyke (NS 8440 9789) which extends along the valley side to the NE (NS89NW 83.03 ). The N side of the head-dyke overlies a fragmentary network of fields (NS 832 978). The S edge of this earlier field-system is overlain by a second field-system which, at its W edge, also overlies the head-dyke. The E side of the latest field-system has been truncated by more recent cultivation.
Extensive swathes of unenclosed rig form discrete blocks according to the topography to the S of the burn and E of the head-dyke. Within this area there are three enclosures of greatly differing sizes. The smallest (NS 8442 9757; about 13m by 8m) lies immediately to the N of an enclosure measuring about 80m by 45m and containing rig. The third enclosure (NS 8458 9750) which measures about 140m by 90m is bounded by a ruinous drystone wall and does not appear to contain any rig. It may be a stock enclosure or plantation bank dating to relatively late in the sequence of landuse on the hill.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 20 May 1997
