Description

This farmstead is situated in a small enclosure on a terrace above small craigs on the E slope of Cruise Back Fell 230m E of the summit. There are the remains of two parallel rectangular buildings, both about 5m by 4m and 0.30m high, with a kiln barn 100m to the SE.

The area proposed for scheduling is 150m EW along the S boundary and follows the old stone dyke of the small enclosure as its W and N boundary. On the E from where the enclosure dyke meets the march dyke it follows a straight line just to the E of S for about 250m to meet the S boundary. A more recent boundary divides the area between two modern farms.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

This monument is of national importance as part of an exceptionally well preserved group of pre-improvement farmsteads and allied remains on the southerly slopes of Gleniron and Cruise Back Fells. Together these offer important information regarding the processes of agricultural settlement and farming practice in the later Medieval period and early modern times, and will have information to offer regarding the chronology for the desertion of upland settlement in this area.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Bibliography

RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 SE 64.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland