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Knock Of Lawsie
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Knock Of Lawsie
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Crathienaird
Canmore ID 31140
Site Number NO29NE 11
NGR NO 2625 9634
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31140
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NO29NE 11 263 963
See also NO29NE 32 and NO29NE 45.
Substantial longhouse, L shape in plan, 10m by 2.5m, footings up to 0.5m high, on a S facing slope at an altitude of 400m. An enclosure lies 100m to the SW of the house. The site covers an area of 1.3ha.
I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982.
(Location cited as NO 2623 9630). Knock of Lawsie. Air photography (NO29SE 1976 2649136 and AAS/79/1/S2/19) has recorded a longhouse and rig in an area of rough grazing, scrub and moorland at an altitude of 400m OD. The longhouse is of substantial L-plan form and measures about 10 by 2.5m; the footing are up to 0.5m high and there is low rig in the field to the SW. The modern farmer of the area lives at Crathienaird.
The monument is indicated on Roy's Military Survey.
NMRS, MS/712/35.
