Lyneriach

Lyneriach is a ruined steading situated by the banks of the Burn of Lyneriach on the south-western slopes of Carn Guish. The steading probably dates from the early nineteenth century as it is shown on maps of Banffshire published in the 1820s.

According to the 1976 Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 map, Lyneriach comprises two unroofed buildings and an enclosure, and archaeologists who visited the site in 1993 recorded a long turf-covered field bank nearby, which is probably the remains of an associated field-system. A small dry-stone structure, probably a corn-drying kiln, was discovered immediately to the north of the steading buildings.

On the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of Elginshire (1873), Lyneriach is annotated as being 'partly in ruins', indicating that the steading had probably been abandoned for some years.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

NJ23NW 11 2085 3575

(NJ 2090 3575). This corn-drying kiln is situated immediately N of the ruined structures that make up the old farmstead of Lyneriach, and is clearly associated with them. It consists of a 6m diameter annular rough-hewn stone enclosure with an internal diameter of 2m, joined at the SW to a 2m long dry-stone dyke. The annular structure is moderately well-preserved, up to 1m high on the outside. The inside is sunken, measuring 2m high.

(NJ 2045 3575). A rough turf-covered field bank runs roughly NW-SE, with a kink in the middle, to the S of Lyneriach Burn. With walls 1m thick and up to 0.3m high, it is clearly the remains of an old field system.

Visited by CFA, October 1992.

CFA 1993; MS/625/29.

A farmstead, comprising one roofed building, two unroofed buildings annotated 'Partly in Ruins' and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Elginshire 1873, sheet xxvi). Two unroofed buildings and one enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 19 May 1999.