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Nettie Burn
Cottage (Period Unassigned), Croft (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Nettie Burn
Classification Cottage (Period Unassigned), Croft (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cline Burn; Invernettie
Canmore ID 106890
Site Number NJ31NW 10
NGR NJ 3476 1587
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106890
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strathdon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ31NW 12 3476 1587
(Location cited as NJ 347 158). Remains of house and enclosure.
NMRS, MS/712/9.
The following site has been identified while checking maps held by Grampian Regional Council. Full information is held in GRC SMR.
NJ 347 158. Remains of house and enclosure.
Sponsor: Grampian Regional Council.
M Greig 1995.
(Formerly named Cline Burn and classified as house and enclosure; name changed to Nettie Burn and reclassified as cottage and croft). This cottage is situated on the NW side of the Nettie Burn, some 540m NE of Invernettie farmsteading (NJ31NW 95). It forms part of a two compartment range, on to which an outshot has been butted on the N, and there is a garden enclosure on the W; a small outbuilding is set adjacent to the NE end of the building, and what is either a second outbuilding or an earlier shieling-hut lies a little way to the SW.
The range measures about 19.7m from NNE to SSW by 5.3m transversely over walls 0.7m in thickness by up to 1.5m in height. The cottage, which occupies the NNE end of the range, measures 10.8m from NNE to SSW by 5.3m overall. The walls of the cottage appear to be earthen bonded, whilst those of the SSW end of the range have a core of loose stones and some mortar pointing. The outbuilding adjacent to the NE corner of the range, measures about 5.5m from NW to SE by 4.1m over tumbled grass-grown walls up to 0.5m high. The outbuilding or shieling-hut to the SW measures 7.1m from NE to SW by 4.4m transversely over a wall reduced to a grass-grown stony bank 1m thick and up to 0.3m high.
Both the cottage and the small building adjacent to its NE corner are depicted as roofed on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1869, sheet lx and 1903, sheet lx). On the earlier map the buildings are set within unimproved moorland; by the end of the 19th century, however, two areas of moorland, extending about 15.6 acres and 7.8 acres respectively (c.9.7ha in total), had been taken in, though the fields are shown unfenced.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH), 2 March 1998.
