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Geldie Burn
Pen (Post Medieval), Sheep Dip (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Stock Enclosure (Post Medieval)
Site Name Geldie Burn
Classification Pen (Post Medieval), Sheep Dip (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Stock Enclosure (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mar Lodge Estate; Bynack Lodge; Ruigh Nan Clach
Canmore ID 81221
Site Number NO08NW 20
NGR NO 0090 8722
NGR Description Centred NO 0090 8722
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81221
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NO08NW 20 centred 0090 8722
See also NO08NW 10, NO08NW 16, NO08NW 17, NO08NW 19.00 .
NO 008 872 The remains of a possible drystone rectangular structure were located within a forestry plantation. It has been badly truncated by ploughing.
Full report deposited with the NMRS and Aberdeen SMR.
Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland
S Bain 1999
Scheduled (with NO08NW 10, NO08NW 16, NO08NW 17, NO08NW 19.00 ) as 'Mar, shielings, enclosures and buildings, Bynack Lodge to Ruigh nan Clach...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 30 March 2009.
Field Visit (22 July 1993)
Six huts, a pen, a stock enclosure and what may be a sheep-dip are scattered over a distance of 350m along the level-ground on the W bank of the Geldie Burn between the track and the river.
The huts range in size from 2.5m to 6.6m in length and by 1.35m to 2.6m in breadth within walls 0.6m to 0.75m in thickness and up to 0.7m in height. Two of the huts are notable for their construction, comprising rubble-faced walls, embanked upon the outside by turf (MAR93 555, 560). One (MAR93 555), which is subdivided into two unequal compartments by a stone partition, has an outshot on its NE end and, like two others (MAR93 558, 563), has a midden heap adjacent to it. A small sub-square pen constructed of turf on a stone base lies about 10m to the N (MAR93 556). The stock enclosure, roughly rectangular on plan, lies on the edge of a terrace at the NE end of the site and measures 14.4m from NE to SW by 10.4m transversely within rubble-faced walls reduced to 0.3m in height; it overlies two huts one to the SW and the other to the NE (MAR93 561-2).
The sheep-dip comprises a low ramp (0.3m in height) leading to two rows of flat boulders 16m in length and about 1.7m apart, which may have supported a timber passage. At the SE end is a pit, 3.1m in length by 2.2m in breadth and about 0.5m in depth with some rubble at the bottom. A rectilinear stand of cobbles, which measures 8.3m from SW to NE by 3.2m transversely, is situated to the SW of the pit and may have served as a drying stance for the dipped sheep. The sheep-dip has similarities with the site at NO08NW 19.07.
(MAR93 555-63)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 22 July 1993.
Measured Survey (22 July 1993)
RCAHMS surveyed the shieling group and sheep dip at Geldie Burn on 22 July 1993 at a scale of 1:250. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1995b, Fig.23).
Observation (1999)
NO 008 872 The remains of a possible drystone rectangular structure were located within a forestry plantation. It has been badly truncated by ploughing.
Full report deposited with the NMRS and Aberdeen SMR.
Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland
S Bain 1999
