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Lawers Burn
Building (Period Unassigned), Peat Stand(S) (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Lawers Burn
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Peat Stand(S) (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 24547
Site Number NN64SE 3
NGR NN 67622 41465
NGR Description Centred on NN 67622 41465
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24547
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kenmore (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN64SE 3 Centred on NN 67622 41465
Area centred NN 6761 4138. There are at least thirty-seven shielings on moorland above the steep E bank of the Lawers Burn, . They are rectangular, stone walled structures, averaging 7.0m x 3.0m and many are divided into two compartments with one end open. Several hollow tracks cut through the area from N to S.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 27 August 1969
Further shieling-huts, huts and enclosures to the W of the burn, centred on NN 67245 41458, are now listed as NN64SE 32.
Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 11 May 2004
Field Visit (22 September 2000)
NN64SE 3 Centred on NN 67622 41465
NN 67622 41465. There are at least forty-five subrectangular peat stack stances (one of which may be a reused building) and five turf shieling-huts disposed along a 550m-long stretch of trackway in moorland above the E bank of the Lawers Burn. Three cup-marked boulders amongst these structures are described separately (NN64SE 39 and 40).
The stances appear as long, narrow enclosures, lying parallel to the trackway, with one end (almost always the N end) left open. They measure from 3.6m to 12.7m in length and, with one exception (infra), from 1.2m to 1.8m in breadth within rubble walls up to 0.6m in height. Fourteen of them have an internal partition dividing the interior into two compartments, three have later pens built within them, and one stance (BL00 1161, at NN 67672 41325) overlies the remains of an earlier one.
One stance stands out as being noticeably wider than the others (BL00 1123, NN 67557 41600). It measures 9.7m in length and 2.4m in breadth within walls up to 0.7m in height and, although it is open at the NW end, there is a possible entrance towards the SE end of the NE side. This may be a building, altered for use as a stack stance (see also NN64SE 44 and 129).
The shieling-huts (BL00 1130-3, 1139, 1141) are clustered to the W of the trackway at NN 67575 41525. They measure from 2.3m to 3.6m in length and 1.5m to 2.2m in breadth within walls reduced to turf banks up to 0.2m in height.
(BL00 1119-46, 1148-64, 1166-9 and 2002)
Visited by RCAHMS (MFTR) 22 September 2000
Watching Brief (6 October 2010)
NN 6755 4158 A watching brief was undertaken on 6 October
2010, during repair work to a section of footpath that runs up
the side of the Lawers Burn, through a scheduled area of peat
stances and braided trackways. The small length of path was
located between peat stances 1128 and 1123. No significant
archaeological features or finds were recorded.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: The National Trust for Scotland
Field Walking (12 June 2019)
GUARD Archaeology Limited undertook an archaeological desk-based assessment and walkover survey, conducted on 12th June 2019, of an area proposed for woodland creation at Duallin Farm in Perth and Kinross. The aims of the study were to assess evidence for the past human use of the area, its archaeological sensitivity, and the potential impact of any development upon the archaeological resource.
The cultural heritage assessment has found that the Site sits within an archaeological landscape that has been used for settlement and ritual purposes since prehistoric times. Within the Site itself are six cup marked or cup and ring marked stones. A further nine cup marked or cup and ring marked stones, one prehistoric hut circle (CHS 56) and a nationally significant stone circle are located within the 1 km buffer.
There are 16 post-medieval sites of local or lesser cultural heritage significance within the area proposed for woodland creation. These consist of agricultural remains, townships, small-scale industrial features, individual structures a trackway and a wall.
Cartographic evidence and aerial and satellite imagery indicate that the Site has been agricultural land and upland rough grazing since at least the mid eighteenth century. Given that prehistoric remains are known within the Site, there is good potential for the survival of hitherto unrecorded sub-surface archaeological remains within the area proposed for woodland creation. Consequently, Perth and Kinross Council may require the implementation of a programme of archaeological evaluation works to establish the presence or absence in those areas of the Site that will be subject to ground-breaking work.
A brief assessment of potential indirect effects upon the designated cultural heritage sites located within the 1 km buffer found that there would be no significant indirect effect upon the settings of Old Lawers Village, Settlement and Burial Ground Scheduled Monument, Lawers Toll House (CHS 31), Lawers Bridge (CHS 32), Lawers Smithy, Lawers Mill, or Lawers Burn, Peat Stores, Huts and Trackways, and Cup-marked Stones Scheduled Monument.
Information from: Karolina Saxerbo Sjoberg (Guard Archaeology) 14th June 2019
OASIS ID: guardarc1-355540
