Beoch Burn
Corn Drying Kiln (Post Medieval), Farmstead (Post Medieval), Field System (Post Medieval), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Post Medieval)
Site Name Beoch Burn
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Post Medieval), Farmstead (Post Medieval), Field System (Post Medieval), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Braid
Canmore ID 60660
Site Number NX06NE 22
NGR NX 0988 6575
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60660
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX06NE 22 0988 6575
A farmstead, comprising four buildings and associated enclosures, is situated on a broad terrace on the S side of the valley of the Beoch Burn. On the E there is a kiln (NX 0997 6574), and around the farmstead there are extensive traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (PC) 1985-6
Annotated Braid (in ruins), three unroofed buildings, two enclosures, one unroofed structure, which is annotated Old Corn Kiln, a small field-system and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Wigtonshire 1849, sheet 10), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1977).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 24 September 1999
(Scheduled as Braid).
Information from Historic Scotland: scheduling document dated 5 October 1999.
