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Westerhall Farm
Farmstead (19th Century), Field System(S) (21st Century)
Site Name Westerhall Farm
Classification Farmstead (19th Century), Field System(S) (21st Century)
Alternative Name(s) Rig, Westerkirk
Canmore ID 67641
Site Number NY38NW 40
NGR NY 3253 8940
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67641
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Westerkirk
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
A farmstead comprising one unroofed L-shaped building, an attached enclosure and one roofed building, and two fields are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1862, sheet xxxvi). One roofed building is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1983).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 19 June 2000
Field Visit (January 1981)
Rig NY 325 894 NY38NW
Adjacent to a stone-built barn 400m N of Rig cottage there are the remains of a rectangular building (21m by 4.5m over all); 70m to the S there are two rectangular platforms (10.5m by 4m and 1Orn by 3.6m respectively and set parallel to the contour) and a rectangular structure (6m by 2.2m within stone wall-footings).
RCAHMS 1981, visited January 1981
Note (1997)
NY 325 894 NY38NW 40
Listed as farmstead.
RCAHMS 1997.
