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Corshalloch
Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Corshalloch
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Muckle Long Hill
Canmore ID 152660
Site Number NJ43NE 52
NGR NJ 4586 3578
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/152660
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Gartly
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ43NE 52 4586 3578
(Location cited as NJ 4586 3579). The incomplete remains of rectangular buildings and enclosures have been recorded on a gentle S-facing slope in an area of forestry at an altitude of 310m OD. A forestry track passes between the buildings.
NMRS, MS/712/90.
The following site was recorded while checking vertical aerial photographs held by Aberdeenshire Council.
NJ 458 357 Buildings and enclosures.
Sponsor: Aberdeenshire Council.
M Greig 1999
Watching Brief (11 January 2011 - 1 March 2014)
A watching brief took place during groundbreaking works for the construction of new access roads and turbine bases outside of previously forested areas. The exception to this was where a new access road
passed to the north-west of Site 2, a farmhouse and associated structures to the east of the Oxter Burn. No archaeological remains were recorded along the new access roads.
The Oxter Burn settlement was part of Corrydown Township and the OS Second Edition map of 1901 shows various farm buildings and other agricultural infrastructure including a pond and sluice ('Sl' on the map). The surviving elements of the site were surveyed by GPS and a route for the new road agreed. This aimed to avoid all parts of the site with the exception of a ditch leading east from the pond. Although the area had been badly affected by commercial forestry, the ditch (or possible mill lead) from the pond was located during the watching brief.
Information from Tamlin Barton, Georgia Marina Andreou Ptychion and Ian Suddaby (CFA Archaeology) March 2014
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-168458
Watching Brief (July 2013 - January 2014)
Agreed mitigation measures were undertaken during the construction phase of Clashindarroch Windfarm to the south-west of Huntly, Aberdeenshire. these included the fencing-off of known sites, a watching brief during the construction of access roads outside of previously forested areas and a small excavation in advance of utility diversion works. No new sites were found during the watching brief but a ditch or possible mill-lead was recorded at corrydown (NJ43SW 20). An excavation took place at Queels (NJ44SE 24) in advance of utility service diversions and this recorded walls, surfaces and deposits associated with the farmstead, all of which appeared to date to the 19th century.
Funder: Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd.
CFA Archaeology Ltd
Information from Tamlin Barton, Georgia Marina Andreou Ptychion and Ian Suddaby (CFA Archaeology) March 2014
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-168458
