Craighaugh
Enclosure (Post Medieval), Kiln (Post Medieval)(Possible), Platform Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age), Sheepfold (Post Medieval)
Site Name Craighaugh
Classification Enclosure (Post Medieval), Kiln (Post Medieval)(Possible), Platform Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age), Sheepfold (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 67301
Site Number NY29NW 8
NGR NY 2477 9866
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67301
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Eskdalemuir
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY 2477 9866. The site of the possible settlement is overlaid by the fences and stone dykes of a large sheep pen. The classification must remain conjectural as there is insufficient suface detail evident for positive identification. The back scarp would appear to be part of the continuation of a natural escarpment; but the platform building, etc., are as described above.
Visited by OS (MJF), 25 August 1981.
Field Visit (June 1980)
(No 32.) Craighaugh NY 247 986 NY29NW
What may be a settlement overlain by a rectangular building is situated 300m NW of Craighaugh steading. The interior, measuring about 68m by 35m, is scooped up to 1.4m into the slope on the W, and on the S there is a stony bank which probably once continued around the E.
RCAHMS 1980, visited June 1980
Field Visit (June 1980)
(No 114.) Craighaugh NY 247 986 NY29NW
Immediately SE of the settlement there is a platform-building (8.2m by 2.5m internally) set parallel to the contours and divided into two compartments with a small outshot at its NW end. About 60m SE of the building there is a probable kiln, and immediately NE of the settlement there is a group of turf-banked enclosures.
RCAHMS 1980, visited June 1980
Note (1997)
NY 2477 9866 NY29NW 8
Listed as settlement, overlain by buildings.
RCAHMS 1997.
