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Cairn Guish
Field System (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cairn Guish
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 16322
Site Number NJ23NW 8
NGR NJ 222 366
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16322
- Council Moray
- Parish Inveravon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
Fieldwork in 1971 by the Ordnance Survey identified evidence of past cultivation on the south-western slopes of Cairn Guish. In places, the surveyors noted that a thick layer of peat and heather covered the remains, but where the peat had been weathered away, a series of small fields, measuring about 20m by 15m, were recorded. The edges of each field were largely defined by heaps of stone, cleared from the land during ploughing.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
NJ23NW 8 222 366.
Centred at NJ 222 366, on a SW-facing slope, is a field system marked by stone clearance heaps and occasional lynchets. The system is mainly covered by deep peat and heather but where weathering has stripped the peat, plots varying from about 20.0m by 15.0m to about 30.0m by 20.0m can be identified.
No huts were found.
Visited by OS (R L) 12 March 1971.
