Moss Of Tolophin
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Moss Of Tolophin
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Tolophin
Canmore ID 154943
Site Number NJ42NW 55
NGR NJ 4357 2539
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/154943
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Auchindoir And Kearn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ42NW 55 4357 2539
A farmstead, comprising four roofed buildings, one of which is a long building, one small unroofed building and three enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1870, sheet xlii). Three unroofed buildings and one enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 31 March 1999.
The remains of this farmstead represent two distinct periods of construction, the steading depicted on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, sheet xlii, 1870) having subsequently been replaced by an entirely new set of buildings. The buildings and enclosures depicted on the 1st edition map lie to the ENE of the later steading and have been reduced to little more than their grass-grown stone wall-footings.
The later farmstead is unroofed, but the buildings generally stand to wall-head height and comprise a S-facing, one-and-a-half storey cottage with a U-plan steading to the rear. The N range of the steading, to the rear of which there is a horse-engine platform, overlies the westernmost range of the earlier farmstead. The earlier range was formerly about 50m long, but only the outline of its E end can be seen. It is adjoined on the N by a stack-yard, in which there are the remains of six circular stack-stands, whilst immediately to the SE there are the footings of a single-compartment building measuring at least 14m from NE to SW by 6m transversely overall.
The other two buildings depicted on the 1st edition of the OS map lie about 30m to the NE and E respectively. That on the NE, which is adjoined on the W by an enclosure, has two compartments and an outshot at the N end; it measures 18.6m (25m over the outshot) from N to S by 5m transversely overall. That on the E, which is adjoined on the N by an enclosure, has two compartments and measures 18.4m from E to W by 5.4m transversely overall. Immediately to the NNE of the enclosure on its N side there are the remains of at least one building that is not depicted on the 1st edition map. It measures 10m from ENE to WSW by 5.8m transversely overall.
Visited by RCAHMS (PC), 29 September 1998.
