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Latitude: 54.9652 / 54°57'54"N
Longitude: -4.8293 / 4°49'45"W
OS Eastings: 218977
OS Northings: 567057
OS Grid: NX189670
Mapcode National: GBR 41.YBBK
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.SGKG
Entry Name: Knockiebae,farmstead 1600m NE of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4785
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead situated about 100mW of the Cross Water of Luce. It comprises two parallel rectangularbuildings each with attached enclosures, two further rectangularbuildings, fields, an a kiln. The two main buildings are 3m apart.The S building measures 15m E-W by 5m and is divided into threecompartments. Adjoining the building to the S is a sub-rectangularenclosure measuring 22m E-W by 19m transversely.
The N building hastwo compartments and measures 10m E-W by 5m. The adjoining enclosureto the N measures 20m N-S by 17m transversely. On the NE side ofthis is a third rectangular measuring 10m NW-SE by 5m overall. About50m W of the main buildings is a fourth, measuring 9m N-S by 5moverall. The kiln, 6m in diameter, lies about 70m NNW of the mainbuildings.
The area to be scheduled includes the buildings, the enclosures, the kiln, and part of the associated field system. Itmeasures 150m N-S by 150m transversely, as marked in red on theattached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well-preserved example of a pre-improvement farmstead which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of medieval and later settlement and agriculture in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other farmsteads in the area; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the economy and organisation of the medieval and later landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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