Knockali

RCAHMS surveyed the Pitcarmick-type building at Knockali (NO 1531 5859) on 10 August 1987 with self-reducing alidade and plane-table at a scale of 1:250. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1990, Fig. 288.3).

RCAHMS surveyed the hut-circles, field systems and Pitcarmick-type buildings at Drumturn Burn/Knockali in 1987 at a scale of 1:2500. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:5000 (RCAHMS 1990, Fig. 124.4C).

This Pitcarmick-type building measures 19m in length and ranges in width from 7m on the W to 4.9m on the E over a wall about 2m in thickness and 0.3m in height. The entrance, which lies on the S, has a small porch and there is probably a heather-covered area of rough paving immediately outside it, now visible as a low stony mound. Part of the interior has been excavated into the slope. There is a small annexe on the SW, and immediately to the NE there is an irregularly-shaped building which may be the remains of a second building. The hollow measures 10m in length by up to 3.6m in width and 0.7m in depth.

Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 5 April 1988.

RCAHMS 1990

Alder Archaeology was commissioned by John Clegg & Co, Chartered Surveyors and Forestry Agents to undertake a desk-based assessment and walkover survey on the site of a proposed forestry development at Drumfork, Blacklunans, near Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross. The walkover (Alder site code (BW09) was done on 25 November 2015 in mainly dry, windy weather condition. The site had previously been surveyed by the RCAHMS in 1987-8 and only one additional site was recorded: a short stretch of drystone wall beside a rock outcrop, possibly part of a shelter.

Information from David Perry (Alder Archaeology Ltd).