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Allt Lochan Nan Losgunn
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval)
Site Name Allt Lochan Nan Losgunn
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Allean Forest
Canmore ID 25828
Site Number NN86SE 15
NGR NN 8535 6021
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25828
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blair Atholl
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN86SE 15 8535 6021
NN 859 603. Deserted Settlement consisting of 2 houses and a corn drying kiln excavated in May 1972, and unexcavated site of 2 long houses, 2 open-ended byres and an enclosed garden.
The first house examined had two cruck openings in the W wall. There were no reciprocal openings in the E wall which had been inserted into a cutting in the sloping ground. The doorway was at the S end of the W wall.
The second house was partly paved at one end with 2 doorways opposite each other in the long walls.
The corn kiln was built into an E-facing slope. Extensions had been built on either side of the flue opening.
M E C Stewart 1972
A deserted farmstead shown unroofed at NN 8593 6021 on OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed., (1900). The first house described (about 13.0m long) has recently been excavated and the reconstructed with a cruck roof with the help of Forestry Commission.
The "open-ended byres" are the two ends of a rectangular house c. 16.0m long, which has been bisected by a forestry road. None of the buildings can be strictly called long-houses.
The settlement has been conserved as a tourist attraction incorporated in the Forestry Commission's Field Walk.
Visited by OS (A A) 11 November 1974
M E C Stewart 1974.
This farmstead comprises three houses, a byre and a corn-drying kiln with surrounding walls, a length of garden boundary-wall and the slight remains of a gardeners house or shed. The most southerly building has been re-roofed.
Information from Mr A K Fulton (Forestry Commission), 23 July 1992
Seven unroofed buildings, one of which has a rounded end, two enclosures and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet xxx). Three unroofed buildings, what may be the remains of another unroofed building, a disused kiln, one enclosure and part of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1993).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 10 October 1997.
