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Bairn's Hill
Farmhouse (18th Century) - (19th Century), Farmstead (18th Century) - (19th Century), Horse Engine Platform (19th Century), Stack Yard (19th Century), Township (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Bairn's Hill
Classification Farmhouse (18th Century) - (19th Century), Farmstead (18th Century) - (19th Century), Horse Engine Platform (19th Century), Stack Yard (19th Century), Township (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Innesbrae; Craigs Of Bogs
Canmore ID 154944
Site Number NJ42NW 56
NGR NJ 4412 2552
NGR Description Centred NJ 4412 2552
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/154944
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Auchindoir And Kearn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ42NW 56 centred 4412 2552
A farmstead, comprising three roofed buildings, one unroofed building and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1870, sheet xlii). One unroofed buildings and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 31 March 1999.
Scheduled as 'Innesbrae, farmhouse, farmsteading and township 450m NE of... the remains of a farmhouse and farmsteading of the late 18th to 18th century and a clustered township, or fermtoun, of the late medieval or later period. It lies in rough pasture on a wide shelf on the S sde of Bairn's Hill, next to some distinctive stone outcroppings.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 19 December 2007.
Field Visit (18 June 1998)
NJ42NW 56 centred 4412 2552
(Reclassified as farmhouse, farmsteading and fermtoun). The remains of a fermtoun are situated adjacent to the abandoned 19th-century farmstead of Bogs. The 19th-century buildings, all of them depicted as roofed on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1870, sheet xlii), cluster at the S end of the fermtoun, and, although roofless, are distinguished by their better state of preservation. The SE-facing, one-and-a-half storey farmhouse stands to wall-head height, while the L-plan range lying immediately to the WSW is more ruinous. A horse-engine platform can be seen at its WSW end, and immediately to the NW what may have been a small shed appears to have been formed from an earlier structure. A further 19th-century building lies 75m N of the farmhouse, on the NW extremity of the fermtoun, but in its general appearance it is indistinguishable from the earlier buildings. It is of a single compartment and measures 16m from NE to SW by 4.8m transversely over stone wall-footings.
Twelve earlier buildings do not appear on the 1st edition of the map, whilst a thirteenth is depicted as unroofed. They form a tight cluster, and have been reduced to little more than their stone wall-footings, several incorporating massive blocks in their construction. There is an even distribution of sizes from 8m up to 19m in overall length.
Visited RCAHMS (PC), 18 June 1998
Measured Survey (17 June 1998 - 27 September 2001)
RCAHMS (PC, IP) undertook a measured survey of the township and farmstead at Bairn's Hill (also known as Bogs) using a self-reducing alidade and plane-table on 17-18 June 1998. The plan was checked in the field (PJD, KHJM) on 27 September 2001. The resultant 1:500 plan was redrawn in ink, scanned and finalised in graphic vector software before publication at 1:1000 (RCAHMS 2007, fig. 8.71).
