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Bute, Craigandun

Field Boundary (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Bute, Craigandun

Classification Field Boundary (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Cnoc An Duin

Canmore ID 90297

Site Number NS06SE 86

NGR NS 05190 64047

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish North Bute
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Buteshire

Archaeology Notes

NS06SE 86 05190 64047

A small area of rig-and-furrow, first recorded by oblique aerial photography in 1993, is visible in rough ground 220m NW of Auchintirrie farmsteading (NS06SE 441). The plot, which measures approximately 50m square, contains at least eleven cultivation ridges measuring about 3m in breadth and orientated E and W. This area is shown as rough ground at the boundary of Auchintirrie and Dunalunt farms on two 18th century maps (Foulis 1758-9; May 1780-82).

Originally classified as an enclosure, this rig probably represents the top end of a field that was otherwise obliterated when the large improvement-period field immediately S was created in the late 18th or early 19th century.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 7 July 2009.

Activities

Antiquarian Mapping (1758 - 1759)

Antiquarian Mapping (1780 - 1782)

Aerial Photography (1993)

Aerial Photography (31 October 2008)

Desk Based Assessment (7 July 2009)

A small area of rig-and-furrow, first recorded by oblique aerial photography in 1993, is visible in rough ground 220m NW of Auchintirrie farmsteading (NS06SE 441). The plot, which measures approximately 50m square, contains at least eleven cultivation ridges measuring about 3m in breadth and orientated E and W. This area is shown as rough ground at the boundary of Auchintirrie and Dunalunt farms on two 18th century maps (Foulis 1758-9; May 1780-82).

Originally classified as an enclosure, this rig probably represents the top end of a field that was otherwise obliterated when the large improvement-period field immediately S was created in the late 18th or early 19th century.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 7 July 2009.

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