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Boyken Burn

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Farmstead (Post Medieval)

Site Name Boyken Burn

Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Calkin; Boyken Burn 2

Canmore ID 67638

Site Number NY38NW 38

NGR NY 30677 88990

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Auchendona Hill, Benpath, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on a settlement and cultivation remains. Boyken Burn farmstead is visible in the top left-hand corner of the photograph.
Auchendona Hill, Benpath, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on a settlement and cultivation remains. Boyken Burn farmstead is visible in the top left-hand corner of the photograph.Boyken Burn, NY38NW 38, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoBoyken Burn, NY38NW 38, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoOblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view.Plan of fermtoun and cultivation remains at Boyken: publication drawing for Inventory of Eastern Dumfriesshire, generated from computer file. Unattributed, [1996].Oblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view.Boyken Burn, NY38NW 38, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoOblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view.Auchendona Hill, Benpath, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on a settlement and cultivation remains. Boyken Burn farmstead is visible in the top right-hand corner of the photograph.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Westerkirk
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Activities

Field Visit (January 1981)

RCAHMS: The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Ewesdale and Lower Eskdale

Boyken Burn 2 NY 306 889 NY38NW

About 500m W of settlement NY38NW 29 there is a rectangular building (10m by 4.5m internally). It has an outshot (5m by 3m internally) at its W end and is attached to an enclosure (58m by 38m) containing traces of cultivation ridges.

RCAHMS 1981, visited January 1981.

Further Details

Note (1997)

RCAHMS National Archaeological Survey: Eastern Dumfriesshire

NY 306 889 NY38NW 38

Listed as farmstead.

RCAHMS 1997.

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