Sundaywell Moor
Archaeological Landscape (Prehistoric) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Sundaywell Moor
Classification Archaeological Landscape (Prehistoric) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Brockloch; Sunbdaywell; Bogrie Linn
Canmore ID 65130
Site Number NX88SW 1
NGR NX 803 846
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Dunscore
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX88SW 1.00 803 846
NX88SW 1.01 NX 802 844 Brockloch farmstead; tower; field-system
NX88SW 1.02 NX 802 845 Brockloch enclosures
NX88SW 1.03 NX 8014 8462 Brockloch homestead
NX88SW 1.04 NX 8008 8462 Brockloch cairn
NX88SW 1.05 NX 802 846 Brockloch field-system
NX88SW 1.06 NX 8000 8448 Brockloch burnt mounds
NX88SW 1.07 NX 8030 8473 Brockloch building (possible)
NX88SW 1.08 NX 806 848 Sundaywell field-system; buildings; enclosure
NX88SW 1.09 NX 806 850 Bogrie Linn farmstead
NX88SW 1.10 NX 8059 8551 Sundaywell building
NX88SW 1.11 NX 8056 8504 Bogrie Linn burnt mound
A - (NX 799 848) Tumuli (NR)
B - (NX 8034 8484, NX 8035 8484, NX 8037 8486) Tumuli (NR)
C - (NX 8081 8499) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A - A group of at least a dozen cairns on a plateau on Sundaywell Moor. One, to the SW of the group, is at the E end of an ancient stony bank which follows an irregular line for some 80 yds to the W. At the N end of the plateau is a hut foundation with a circular chamber at one end. It measures 11' overall with an apparently oblong compartment attached. Across the outer end of this is a short length of modern walling.
A large cairnfield with an oblong monument at NX 801 848 marked by stones on its edges.
B - A small cairnfield and ancient banking at NX 803 849.
C - A grassy mound 15' by 11' which may be a cairn.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912; J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967
Centred: NX 803 846 - Throughout this whole area are many small clearance heaps and two lynchets of probable I A type. The majority of the area, however, is overlain by more recent clearance with associated boundary dykes and rectangular foundations. No hut circles were found nor are there any burial cairns.
Visited by OS (JP) 3 December 1973
'A' A group of about a dozen grass-covered ?clearance cairns averaging 3.0m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height. There are no contemporary field boundaries and no hut circles evident.
'B' A second group of a dozen cairns, similar in size and shape to those at 'A', together with two lynchets - one 60.0m long and the other 30.0m long. Within this general area are also some long, apparently later, spreads of cleared stones and a 3.0m long and 1.0m high stretch of walling which is probably the remains of a stock shelter.
'C' A pear-shaped stony mound 5.0m long, 3.0m average width and 0.4m high with nothing about it to suggest an antiquity.
Immediately below the cairn group 'B' is an old head dyke enclosing a network of ruined field walls, rectangular foundations and large irregular heaps of cleared stone. These remains indicate an area intensively farmed and subsequently deserted in relatively modern times, probably within the last two centuries.
It is evident that on this south-facing hillslope area of approximately 50 hectares there has been continued agricultural activity from prehistoric times.
Visited by OS (BS) 21 February 1978
Field Visit (March 1991)
A complex of landuse and settlement remains survives on the N side of the Glenesslin Burn, bounded on the N by the Bogrie Burn and the Dalmacallan Forest. The NE portion of the area is covered by an extensive network of medieval and later field banks, defining a conjoined series of irregularly-shaped fields. The NW of the area, on the E side of Little Knockoure, bears a scatter of small cairns and several plots, defined by lynchets and banks; this may be part of a more extensive scatter of small cairns and banks visible on the terrace to the S of Little Knockoure, within which there is a homestead, an enclosure and a possible burial cairn. There are further scatters of small cairns to the W (see NX78SE). To the S of the terrace, on the valley side, there is a farmstead, built around a small tower and sitting in the midst of a series of fields defined by banks and substantial lynchets. The valley side has been partially improved and enclosed by drystone walls. There is extensive ridging over much of
the area, impinging on the areas of prehistoric remains; the rigs are visible on aerial photographs and some can be traced on the ground. A second farmstead (NX88SW 1.09) lies at the N edge of the site and may relate to the extensive network of conjoined fields on Sundaywell Moor.
NX88SW 1.01 NX 802 844 Farmstead; Tower; Field-system (Nith 54-58)
NX88SW 1.02 NX 802 845 Enclosures (Nith 59, 60)
NX88SW 1.03 NX 8014 8462 Homestead (Nith 61)
NX88SW 1.04 NX 8008 8462 Cairn (Nith 371)
NX88SW 1.05 NX 802 846 Field-system
NX88SW 1.06 NX 8000 8448 Burnt mounds (Nith 62, 63)
NX88SW 1.07 NX 8030 8473 Building (Possible)
NX88SW 1.08 NX 806 848 Field-system
NX88SW 1.09 NX 806 850 Farmstead (partly on NX88NW) (Nith 72-4)
NX88SW 1.10 NX 8059 8551 Building (Nith 385)
NX88SW 1.11 NX 8056 8504 Burnt mound (Nith 390)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) March 1992.
