Geldie Burn
Sheepfold(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Geldie Burn
Classification Sheepfold(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mar Lodge Estate
Canmore ID 81224
Site Number NO08NW 23
NGR NO 0015 8691
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81224
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Field Visit (17 May 1993)
NO08NW 23 0015 8691
There are at least two huts and a turf sheepfold on the edge of a terrace to the N of the track that runs along the N bank of the Geldie Burn. The turf sheepfold is overlain by a later drystone fold and, to the S, two quarry pits disturb the site of what may have been further shieling-huts. The two huts lie next to one another some 20m to the E and both have two compartments. That to the W measures 8.7m from N to S by 2.2m transversely within faced-rubble walls 0.8m in thickness and 0.3m in height with an outshot at the N end of the E wall, extending 1.6m to the E by 2.7m in breadth and that to the E, which is much reduced and partly robbed, measures 7.7m from N to S by 3.4m over stony banks spread to 1.2m in thickness and 0.25m in height.
(MAR93 166-7, 494)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 17 May 1993.
