Ashintully

RCAHMS surveyed the Pitcarmick-type building at Ashintully in 1987 at a scale of 1:250 with self-reducing alidade and plane-table. The site plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1990, Fig. 222).

This building is situated close to the edge of a broad natural terrace. It is defined by a bank up to 2m thick and 0.3m high and measures 25m from E to W by up to 8.1m transversely overall at its widest point, though it narrows to 6.2m and 6.7m respectively at either end; the E half of the building is scooped to a depth of 0.4m.

Immediately to the S there is a D-shaped enclosure measuring 6m from E to W by 3.5m transversely within a bank 1.1m thick and 0.2m high, but the purpose of two banks which spring from the W corners of the building is unclear.

To the N a roughly rectangular hollow 0.5m deep and measuring 14.5m from ESE to WNW by 4.7m transversely may be the remains of an earlier building.

Visited by RCAHMS (PC) May 1988.

RCAHMS 1990