Description

The monument is the remains of a pre-improvement, post medieval farmstead. It comprises a dispersed group of sub-rectangular buildings and structures with associated remains, including boundary and cultivation features. The buildings and structures survive as turf covered footings. Some of the buildings have evidence of doorways and internal drains. The farmstead is located on a series of low ridges on rough grazing land around a small lochan at approximately 105m above sea level.   

The farmstead is arranged around the lochan with three main clusters of buildings and structures. A group of three structures to the north northwest of the lochan includes two sub-rectangular features arranged roughly at right angles to each other. The largest is a building which measures around 15m by 8m and is attached to a building or smaller enclosure measuring around 9m by 6m. To their north, there is a third building measuring about 7m by 5m. To the north northeast of the lochan there is a building measuring 10m by 6m with evidence of two attached structures at its southwest end. About 20m to the south are four sub-rectangular buildings. One measures around 23m by 6m. Another, set at right angles to the former, measures around 21m by 8m. These buildings appear to have a sunken area, possibly containing a byre drain, in one half, and an entrance about halfway along a long side. A third building measures 7m by 5m, and the fourth, 15m by 6m. About 60m to the south of the core of the farm there is another structure measuring approximately 8m by 5m and a second structure further to the south measuring 8m by 6m. Around these features are the remains of rigg and furrow and stretches of field boundaries. To the northwest of the farmstead there is a roughly circular feature thought to be the remains of a corn kiln.  

The scheduled area comprises two areas, the first is irregular and the second is circular measuring 25m in diameter. The scheduled area includes the remains described above and an area around them in which evidence relating to their construction and use is expected to survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map. To the south and east, the scheduled area extends up to, but does not include, the post and wire fencing.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance as an extensive pre-improvement farmstead which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of settlement in the area during this period. The monument retains its field characteristics in the form of turf covered wall footings of buildings and enclosures, with evidence of details such as door openings and byre drains. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other farmsteads in the vicinity. The study of this example and the wider group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge if the organisation of the early modern landscape.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland