North Nib
Building (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name North Nib
Classification Building (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Oldtown Of Carnaveron
Canmore ID 79648
Site Number NJ51SE 23
NGR NJ 5607 1338
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/79648
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Alford
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Aerial Photography (27 October 1993)
NJ51SE 22 5607 1338
Area of rig-and-furrow visible on air photographs AAS/93/G28/9-10, flown 27 October 1993. Copies held by Grampian Regional Council.
Greig 1994; NMRS MS/712/6.
Field Visit (27 September 1994)
On the S bank of a burn about 550m NNE of Oldtown of Carnaveron farmsteading, there is a small area of rig cultivation, at the SE edge of which there are the remains of a single building. The building measures 16.5m E-W by 4.5m transversely within faced-rubble walls 0.6m thick which stand up to 0.5m high. The entrance was in the S side. The rig survives in a narrow strip of boggy ground, an old plantation, which measures about 250m E-W by about 60m transversely. The rigs run N-S, measure about 6m across, and there are clearance heaps in the furrows between them. The building is depicted, roofed but not named, on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1869, sheet lxii).
(CRAIG94 86)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 27 September 1994
