Description

This farmstead is situated on a terrace below S-facing craigs 350m NW of Pularyan. It comprises two buildings set parallel to each other, the smaller overlying traces of what may be an earlier building.

These adjoin an enclosure, roughly 25m by 22m, to the S which extends onto boggy ground and is marked by a stone dyke. There is another building 40m to the NNE and a further building 90m to the NE. On the slopes of the craigs 70m to the W is a kiln.

The area proposed for scheduling extends from the angle to the end of the old dyke to the W, NNE to points NX 1446 6767 and 1444 6771. This includes all four buildings, the enclosure and the kiln and an area around in which traces of activities associated with their construction and use may survive. The area is marked in red on the map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

This monument is of national importance as a good field example of a pre-improvement farmstead and also for its potential to contribute to our understanding of the arrangement of farm buildings and of the land-use of the period.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Bibliography

RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 30.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland