Description

The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead situated in a field of improved pasture and about 130m SE of the march dyke with Pultadie. It comprises a rectangular building and adjoining enclosure and second enclosure, and two additional rectangular buildings. The first building measures 6m by 5m is in the corner of a small sub- rectangular enclosure.

The second enclosure, immediately beside the building, measures 5m by 4m and may be an ancillary building. About 10m to the W of the latter is the second building. The third structure is about 80m to the SW. The area to be scheduled includes the buildings, the enclosure, and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may be found. It measures 140m NE-SW by 50m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

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. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other farmsteads in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the organisation of the medieval and later landscape.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland