Laggan Burn
Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Field Boundary (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Laggan Burn
Classification Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Field Boundary (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 90284
Site Number NX55SW 74
NGR NX 5474 5343
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/90284
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Anwoth
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Field Visit (26 April 1994)
NX55SW 74 547 534
On the edge of improved pasture about 400m NNE of Laggan farmsteading, and 50m E of the Laggan Burn, there is a hut-circle with, close by to the N, a building and a stretch of field-bank with an attached enclosure.
The hut-circle (Cree94 238; NX 5474 5343) is oval, measuring 14m from E to W by 12.5m transversely within a slight stony bank spread to 2m in thickness. It has been set into rising ground on the N, where there is a back scarp 1.2m high, and its front edge has been built up by 0.5m. The entrance may have been on the E. There has been some disturbance in the NW quadrant, where what may have been a hut was built over the wall. The building stands about 30m to the N (Cree94 236; NX 5473 5346). It measures 12m in length from NE to SW by 5.7m in breadth within a faced rubble wall 1m thick and up to 0.4m high; it has been terraced out at the SW end and levelled in on the NE. The walls have been robbed and recent field-clearance has been dumped on it. A stony bank passes the NE end of the building turning to the N, where, at NX 5472 5351 there is a rubble-built enclosure measuring internally 9.6m E to W by 8.6m transversely (Cree94 237).
(Cree94 236-8)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB), 26 April 1994.
