Corsindae

NJ60NE 10 centred 685 081

(Location cited as NJ 685 081). Midmar Hall. Air photography (AAS/81/13/S15/21-8, flown 11 December 1981) has recorded rig-and-furrow cultivation in several plots on a moderate SW-facing slope at an altitude of 187m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/55.

An extensive area of rig-and-furrow is situated on the NW and SW flanks of an un-named hill 410m S of Corsindae tower-house (NJ60NE 4.00). Most of the rig is curved or displays a slight reverse-S on plan, and the broadest measure up to 12.5m in breadth between the centres of the furrows. There is evidence of formal enclosure around the rigs at the far W end of the area. Elsewhere, most of the stones that have been gathered off the rigs appear to have been dumped in the bottom of the furrows, in giving the superficial appearance of thick grass-grown field-banks. On the NW side of the area an old road with associated quarries cuts across the rigs. However, there are several low, sinuous stony banks at the W end of the area that possibly belong to a much earlier field-system. There is no visible evidence that the summit of the hill has ever been cultivated, though it is possible that any rigs that existed here have been ploughed flat. Modern cultivation of the adjacent field to the NE has been extended onto the summit.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 14 October 1999.