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Standingstone Edge
Farmstead (Post Medieval), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Quarry(S) (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Standingstone Edge
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Quarry(S) (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mine Sike; Callisterhall
Canmore ID 67198
Site Number NY28SE 21
NGR NY 29178 82088
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67198
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Langholm
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Remains of pre-improvement farmstead located on south-east facing slopes of Standingstone Edge within rough pasture, but adjacent to forestry-ploughed land. Main views in north-east-south-east arc.
information from Héléna Gray, (CFA Archaeology Ltd), August 2015
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-278420
Field Visit (March 1981)
Standingstone Edge NY 291 820 NY28SE
On the SE slope of Standingstone Edge there is a rectangular building (16m by 3.2m internally) divided into two compartments and associated with enclosed cultivation ridges extending over an area of about 2ha.
RCAHMS 1981, visited March 1981
Field Visit (July 1992)
NY 2915 8205 NY28SE 21
This farmstead occupies an area of slightly-drained ground on the boggy SE flank of Standingstone Edge, to the NNW of Mine Sike. It comprises the remains of four buildings (disposed in two units which probably represent seperate phases of activity), several small enclosures, and a well-developed group of fields, within which there are traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation.
The first unit comprises two turf buildings set at right-angles to each other towards the W side of the middle field. The larger building is a substantial structure, measuring 18m from NNE to SSW by up to 4.8m transversely overall. It has a drainage-trench to the rear, an open end on the NNE and a baffled entrance roughly central to the ESE side. The adjacent building is subrectangular on plan and measures about 15m in overall length.
The second unit is probably the later of the two and comprises two buildings set roughly parallel to each other on either side of an elongated turf-covered mound of unknown purpose and funtion. Both buildings are terraced into the slope and are reduced to their stone wall-footings. That on the NW is of two compartments and measures about 18m in overall length while the other is of three-compartment form, measures 24m in overall length and has an outshot on the SW.
The middle field, together with that to the NNW, has an external ditch to the enclosing bank, while the NW field has been cross-ploughed. The place-name 'Mine Sike' indicates industrial activity near by while further evidence is provided by the quarries and spoil tips (NY28SE 60) to the SSE of the farmstead. There is a further quarry, perhaps for stone, immediately SSW of the second building cluster.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS), July 1992.
Listed as farmstead.
RCAHMS 1997.
Measured Survey (1 July 1992 - 2 July 1992)
RCAHMS surveyed the farmstead at Standingstone Edge between 1-2 July 1992 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:1250. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:2500 (RCAHMS 1997, Fig. 244).
Project (29 May 2014)
An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by CFA Archaeology Ltd, a desk based assessment and walk over survey (May 29th 2014) was conducted
The historic environment record within the Site Boundary is relatively limited, although there is some potential for the proposed development site to contain previously unknown heritage assets from at least the later prehistoric period onwards, given the historic landscape character of the wider area. Taking this into account, the archaeological potential of the proposed development site is considered to be low.
A summary assessment, on a site by site basis, of the predicted effects on the settings of assets within a 10km radius where the blade tip ZTV indicates that there would be theoretical views of one or more turbines
information from Héléna Gray, (CFA Archaeology Ltd), August 2015
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-278420
