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Latitude: 54.8744 / 54°52'27"N
Longitude: -5.1214 / 5°7'16"W
OS Eastings: 199832
OS Northings: 557755
OS Grid: NW998577
Mapcode National: GBR FHQT.QX0
Mapcode Global: WH1R7.9RH2
Entry Name: Knock and Maize,farmstead 250m SE of
Scheduled Date: 28 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5118
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Portpatrick
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead situated in rough pasture beside the public road running N from Portpatrick. It comprises three rectangular buildings. The first, containing two compartments, measures 4.7m by 2.8m within walls 0.7m thick and 0.4m high. This is attached by a length of walling to another building measuring 5.2m by 4m within walls 1.1m thick and 0.4m high.
A third building measuring 9.4m by 4.7m overall lies to the E. The area to be scheduled includes the buildings and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may be found. It measures a maximum of 70m NE-SW by 70m transversely, bounded by, but excluding, the modern field dykes on the NW and NE sides, as markedin red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a pre-improvement farmstead which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of medieval and later settlement and agriculture in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NW 95 NE 19.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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