Culfork

NJ41SE 19 457 114 to 455 109

See also NJ41SE 55, NJ41SE 56, NJ41SE 57.

Possible field system downslope from remains of old croft and sheepfold. Tracks and possible terraces with lynchet and low spread of stone clearance heaps below old sheepfold.

I Shepherd 1989q

(Location cited as NJ 457 114). This group of monuments is situated in grassland on a steep N-facing slope at an altitude of about 270m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/46, visited (IAGS) 28 March 1989.

(Location cited as NJ 457 114 to NJ 455 109; classification amended to field-system and rig). This field-system, which is situated on the NW flank of Frosty Hill, is much more extensive than was previously recognised, comprising small fields defined by well-developed lynchets and areas of rig-and-furrow. The former lie directly SE of the Burn of Culfork on the improved lower NW slopes of the hill and may be associated with the buildings (NJ41SE 55) that are situated on the right bank of the burn. Fourteen separate fields can be identified; they measure up to 100m in length and from 5m to 20m in breadth, and the best-formed lynchets are about 0.6m in height. At the NE end of the field-system a small area of poorly preserved rig may be seen running NNE and SSW down the slope, but on the west the rigs appear to be obliquely overlain by a ruined field wall, which itself runs N and S downslope from a ruined sheepfold (NJ41SE 56). At the SW end of the field-system, to either side of the Burn of Culfork, there is rig, measuring up to 5m in breadth. It is possible that rig originally extended throughout the whole of the field-system, but it may have been removed from the lower slopes to the NW of the grouse-moor by subsequent ploughing and improvement to the pasture.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 12 August 1997.

Scheduled (with NJ41SE 55) as 'Culfork, farmstead... the remains of a post-medieval farmstead or small fermtoun and a sample of an associated field system, situated in a field of rough grazing on the east bank of the Burn of Culfork... 80m SE of the abandoned farmsteading of Culfork [NJ41SE 31], at an altitude of 290m OD.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 21 March 2007.

The scheduled area does not comprise the totality of this cultivared area.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 May 2007.