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Gillesbie Cottages
Moated Site (Medieval)
Site Name Gillesbie Cottages
Classification Moated Site (Medieval)
Canmore ID 85950
Site Number NY19SE 41
NGR NY 1686 9215
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/85950
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Hutton And Corrie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY19SE 41 1686 9215
Scheduled as 'Gillesbie Cottages, moated site 160m NNE of...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 March 2010.
Measured Survey (18 October 1991)
RCAHMS surveyed the enclosure at Gillesbie Cottages on 18 October 1991 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:500.
Field Visit (18 October 1991)
NY 1686 9215 NY19SE 41
(Formerly classified as enclosure). Situated on the SE edge of a wide boggy hollow about 130m NE of Gillesbie Cottages, there are the remains of what is probably a moated site. Roughly subrectangular on plan, it measures about 18m from NW to SE by 14m transversely within a ditch up to 6m broad and 0.4m deep. The ditch, which is best preserved on the E and has been obliterated on the SW by later cultivation, is accompanied on the NE by an external bank (up to 4m thick and 0.3m high).
The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire, 1861, sheet 43) depicts the location as being occupied by cottages and gardens, of which there are now no visible remains. The relationship of the moated site to a dam drawn across the boggy ground to the NW is uncertain.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 18 October 1991.
Listed as moated site.
RCAHMS 1997.
Field Visit (1996 - 2003)
Russell Coleman managed an Historic Scotland funded project to record medieval moated sites in Scotland. Gazetteers were produced for each regional council area between 1996 and 2002 with an uncompleted overall review in 2002-03. The results of the first year of the project were published in Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, Volume 3 (1997).
