Blairfowl West
Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Blairfowl West
Classification Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 19793
Site Number NJ83NW 21
NGR NJ 808 386
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19793
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fyvie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ83NW 21 808 386
1 ha of low rigs, wavelength 5.5m, in pasture on a N facing slope, much of which has been taken into modern cultivation.
I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982.
(Location cited as NJ 8080 3860). Air photography (AAS/80/08/S7/20-4, flown 10 October 1980, and BKS vertical NJ83N 2731168, flown 1 June 1977) has recorded an incomplete area of rig-and-furrow cultivation on a steep slope at an altitude of 50m OD. The individual rigs are broad and low in form.
[Roy's Military Survey cited].
NMRS, MS/712/35.
