Glenshee
Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Site Name Glenshee
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 69305
Site Number NJ44SE 28
NGR NJ 4514 4258
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/69305
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glass
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Field Visit (22 March 1990)
NJ44SE 28 4514 4258.
The ruins of this farmstead stand on a N-facing slope 450m NNE of the cairn NJ44SE 11. The farmstead comprises a group of buildings forming three sides of a yard, with a further four buildings lying to the E; a horse-gang is attached to the rear of the building that forms the W side of the yard, and beyond it there is a stackyard containing rows of grass-grown stack-bases. Comparison of the first and second editions of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1874, xxv; 1902, xxv NE) shows that by 1902 one of the buildings to the E (the southernmost) had been abandoned, while another (the easternmost) had been added; the horse-gang only appears on the earlier edition of the map.
Name Book 1874
Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 22 March 1990.
