Garheugh Fell
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Garheugh Fell
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Humphry
Canmore ID 175593
Site Number NX25SE 48
NGR NX 2763 5127
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/175593
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Mochrum
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX25SE 48 276 512
"This name applies to a small field of arable land and some small enclosures of rough rocky pasture the fences of which are very ruinous, in the former small field is the ruins of houses."
Name Book 1850
A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings, which are annotated Ruins, an Old Sheep Ree and a field-system, which is partially marked by pecked lines and annotated as Old Walls, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Wigtonshire 1850, sheet 24). One unroofed building and one field with an attached enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 4 November 1999
Field Visit (1 March 2008 - 1 April 2011)
SRP field reconnaissance and mapping
Srp Note (4 July 2011)
The farmstead of Humphry lies 500 m SE of Garnschog (Pulnasky) township NX25SE_47. Within an enclosing oval head dyke are a byre dwelling with a rectangular enclosure to the W; the byre dwelling can be seen to be of at least two phases of construction. Some 50m SW of the byre dwelling is a small rectangular enclosure and large clearance cairns to the SE. Areas of rig cultivation survive within the head dyke and a linear stone spread at the NE corner may predate the construction of the head dyke.
The farmstead lies at the centre of a more extensive field system marked as ‘Old Walls’ on the OS First edition map (Wigtonshire 1850, sheet 25). The field system comprises a series of low, irregular stone dykes which form conjoined enclosures. There is a small cairnfield within the W enclosure associated with a two-compartment structure. A further two small rectangular structures, possibly shepherds huts or cabins, lie within the S part of the field system. Incorporated into the NW side of the head dyke is a two-compartment sheep shelter with an outshot to the NW.
Immediately outside the SE corner of the head dyke is a low, curving spread of stone, some 2m wide, which runs NE and is then covered by peat. It may be the remains of large enclosure wall pre-dating both the head dyke associated with the farmstead and field system.
