Archaeology Notes

Event ID 800956

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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"This name applies to a small field of arable land and some small enclosures of rough rocky pasture the fences of which are very ruinous, in the former small field is the ruins of houses."

Name Book 1850

A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings, which are annotated Ruins, an Old Sheep Ree and a field-system, which is partially marked by pecked lines and annotated as Old Walls, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Wigtonshire 1850, sheet 24). One unroofed building and one field with an attached enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 4 November 1999