Drumruck
Building (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Post Medieval), Field Boundary(S) (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Drumruck
Classification Building (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Post Medieval), Field Boundary(S) (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 88975
Site Number NX56SE 55
NGR NX 5762 6342
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/88975
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Girthon
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Field Visit (29 April 1994)
NX56SE 55 5762 6342
On the steep, grass- and bracken-covered, E-facing slope of Rig of Drumruck, there are three huts, a building, three pens, and an enclosure and some field-banks. These structures are scattered over a distance of 400m from N to S and are to be found on small terraces on the broken ground of the hill-slope.
Of the three huts, one lies at the extreme S of the site (Cree94 276) and the other two (Cree94 281-2) are situated together on the same terrace at the opposite end of the site. They range from 4.9m to 5.5m in length by 1.6m to 3.1m in breadth within rubble walls 0.6m to 0.8m in thickness and about 0.3m high.
The building (Cree94 277, NX 5762 6342) measures 7.7m from NE to SW by 4.2m transversely within faced-rubble walls 0.9m thick by 0.5m high and is set into the slope on the NW. It is depicted on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map and labelled as "Old Sheep Ree" (Kirkcudbrightshire 1852, sheet 37).
The three pens are scattered across the site. The northernmost lies at NX 5759 6365 immediately N of an oval enclosure or small field (about 70m by 50m in extent), the other two lie to the S at NX 5758 6352 and NX 5758 6344 respectively. There are the fragmentary field banks of two phases of a second enclosure or field about 100m to the SE of the first.
(Cree94 276-7, 281-2).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 29 April 1994
