Archaeology Notes

Event ID 814455

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX56NW 16 5472 6659

'It was erected as a pinfold for cattle which to stray from adjoining farms until money for trespass was paid by their owners.'

Name Book 1852 (Book No. 102, 5)

One enclosure and a length of wall are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Kirkcudbrightshire 1852, sheet 37), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1978).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 17 March 2000