Cambret Moor
Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cairnfield (Prehistoric) - (Medieval), Field System (Prehistoric) - (Medieval), Hut (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cambret Moor
Classification Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cairnfield (Prehistoric) - (Medieval), Field System (Prehistoric) - (Medieval), Hut (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 63684
Site Number NX55NW 26
NGR NX 5299 5749
NGR Description centred on NX 529 575
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63684
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmabreck
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Field Visit (20 June 1977)
NX55NW 26 centred on 529 575
Centred NX 5285 5758. Dispersed over approx 3.5 hectares on the south east slopes of Cambret Hill and lying between 700ft and 850ft OD are about twelve small field clearance heaps. They average 3.0m diameter and 0.7m in height, are irregular in distribution, and are composed of small angular stones with no trace of kerbing.
Some fragmentary lynchets (0.3m high) are identifiable but no definite field pattern could be interpreted partly because the area is under a dense cover of heather and bracken.
Visited by OS (TRG) 20 June 1977
Field Visit (5 July 1994)
On the gentle slopes towards the base of the SW flank of Cambret Hill, there are a hut-circle (Cree94 359), two buildings (Cree94 361, 362), and a hut (Cree94 360) set within a scatter of small cairns and a field-system of small subrectangular plots.
The hut-circle (Cree94 359; NX 5299 5750), which is levelled into the back of a small terrace, measures 8.6m from E to W by 7.1m transversely within a boulder-faced bank 2m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The entrance is on the SE.
The buildings (Cree94 361, 362; NX 5297 5743) are situated on a terrace to the SW of the hut-circle and measure up to 7m by 3.5m internally.
The hut (Cree94 360; NX 5305 5746) lies to the SSE of the hut-circle and comprises a mound measuring 6.6m by 5.3m overall on top of which there are two depressions.
The field-system lies to the NW and W of the hut-circle and is characterised by intermittent stretches of heather-covered stony banks and lynchets defining at least four subrectangular plots, measuring up to 60m across. Most of the ground outwith the plots does not appear to have been cleared, but there are thirteen small cairns, measuring up to 5m in diameter and 0.4m in height, scattered around the fringes of the plots. Some 80m to the NE of the eastern fringe of the field-system there is an earth-and-stone banked plot, measuring about 70m from N to S by 50m transversely. A trackway runs along the W side of the plot, probably part of the trackway running through the field-system to the SW.
A further trackway crosses the saddle from ENE to WSW, and short stretches of it are visible cutting through the site.
(Cree94 359-362)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 5 July 1994
