Lair

NO16SW 35 1380 6361 to 1380 6365.

On a low knoll on the SW side of the Allt Corra-lairige there are the remains of three buildings defined by little more than low banks and depressions up to 0.4m deep.

Two of the buildings are set end-on to each other, although the relationship between them is unclear; that on the SE measures 20.9m from NW to SE by 7.2m transversely overall, and that on the NW measures 16.8m from NW to SE by 6.3m transversely overall.

The third building lies 15m to the SSW and appears as a depression measuring 10.3m from NW to SE and varying in width from 5.9m at the NW end to 4m at the SE end; it may be that this represents only the sunken element of a building which extended further to the NW where its remains are obscured by heather.

Visited by RCAHMS (PC) September 1988.

RCAHMS 1990

NO 1390 6370 A magnetic survey was carried out, 16 December 2011 – 5 November 2012, to provide a broad context for the excavations at Lair being conducted by Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust. The area has been occupied repeatedly, possibly from as early as the Neolithic. An area of c3ha has been covered so far but much of the site is in deep heather and progress is slow. A wide variety of magnetic features have been mapped.

Archive: Perth and Kinross SMR and RCAHMS ( intended)

Funder: Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust

Peter Morris, Blairgowrie Geoscience, 2012

(Source: DES)