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Cragganester
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cragganester
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Balnasuim
Canmore ID 72170
Site Number NN63NE 38
NGR NN 66245 38901
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/72170
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kenmore (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN63NE 38 66245 38901
Farmstead at NN 6627 3889
A farmstead, comprising one unroofed L-shaped building of five compartments annotated as a sheepfold is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix). The unroofed L-shaped building with attached enclosures is shown and annotated as sheepfold on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 February 1998.
This farmstead was surveyed and described by Edinburgh University Centre for Field Archaeology in 1989.
(see RCAHMS MS625/5 and DC14939CO).
NN 66245 38901. This farmstead, whose remains have been incorporated into a later sheepfold, stands in enclosed pasture 770m NW of Balnasuim farmsteading. It comprises two buildings, an enclosure and a small corn-drying kiln, though it is possible that other structures were destroyed during the construction of the fold. Two more kilns, standing about 100m to the NNW, may be related to this farmstead (NN63NE 112).
The principal building (BL00 1742) measures at least 8.9m from NE to SW by 3.8m within rubble walls 0.5m in height. An outshot extends 5.4m from the SW end. The other building (BL00 1743) now forms one of the central compartments of the fold, and its walls have largely been rebuilt, though a fireplace survives in the NW end. It stands at right angles to the first building, measures internally 10.3m in length and 3.7m in breadth, and has an entrance on the NE. The enclosure lies to the NE of the second building. It measures 15m from NW to SE 13m transversely within an earthen bank, though its SW side is missing, and it may originally have extended a further 10m in that direction to abut the building. The corn-drying kiln (BL00 1745) stands in front of the outshot attached to the SW end of the first building. It measures 1.2m in diameter and 0.4m in depth within a stone-faced bank, and the flue opens towards the S. Finally, the sheepfold itself (BL00 2055) is built of drystone rubble, it measures overall about 27m from NW to SE by 20m and has seven compartments.
The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix) depicts a sheepfold here, L-shaped on plan and comprising five compartments and incorporating the two buildings (both roofless) described above.
(BL00 1742-3, 1745, 2055, 2698)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 1 November 2000.
