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Balacariag, Glen Muick
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balacariag, Glen Muick
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Glenmuick 1; Blackandge
Canmore ID 32475
Site Number NO39SE 6
NGR NO 3567 9257
NGR Description Centred on NO 3567 9257
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/32475
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glenmuick, Tullich And Glengairn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NO39SE 6 centred on 357 925
A substantial township of twelve houses, three enclosures and a corn-drying kiln is situated on a prominent ridge at 300m. Footings of earlier buildings underlie the township. To the SW of the township, on a W facing 8-degree slope within a dyke is an extensive system of well preserved rig and furrow with a wavelength of 12m and stone clearance along the rig sides. There are indications of a change in orientation of the ploughing in the northern part of the system. The whole site covers an area of 8 ha. A sunken track runs to a similar settlement at Glen Muick (NO39SE 7).
I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982
Visible on air photographs AAS/93/05/G11/8-12. Copies held by Grampian Regional Council.
Information from M Greig, Grampian Regional Council, March 1994
(Location cited as NO 357 925 and name as Glenmuick 1). Air photography has recorded a depopulated settlement with rig-and-furrow cultivation in an area of rough grazing on the S-facing slope of a prominent ridge at an altitude of 300m OD. It is noted as Blackandge and the rigs are depicted on General Roy's military survey of 1750.
The substantial township comprises twelve houses, three enclosures and a corn-drying kiln. The ruins of the buildings remain in stone, although earlier turf-covered footings appear to run underneath. A sunken track runs NW-SE and on to a second settlemnt (Glenmuick 2).
To the SW of the settlement there are extensive remains of rig-and-furrow cultivation. The rigs are long and wide on an 8-degree slope, those at the foor of the slope being well demarked by rushes growing in the furrows. There are possible lynchets upslope.
[Ground and air photographic imagery listed].
NMRS, MS/712/36
Sixteen unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building, one roofed building, four enclosures, one of which is incomplete, and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1869, sheet xci). Twenty-three unroofed buildings, three enclosures and part of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 31 March 1999
