Description

The monument comprises a farmstead of pre-Improvement date and an associated field system comprising a series of banks, scarps, walls and turf-covered wall footings.

The monument lies in pasture at around 135m OD. It comprises three stone-built buildings and two enclosures. The W enclosure is sub-rectangular, with rounded corners and a curving SE side. It measures about 30m long by about 20m wide, defined by a stony bank measuring up to about 2m wide and 1m high. There are two small rectilinear buildings associated with the enclosure. The first lies within the enclosure, with its N wall abutting the enclosure bank. The second lies to the outside of the enclosure, with its S wall abutting the enclosure bank at the same point as the first building. The second enclosure lies some 30m to the NE of the first. It is also sub-rectangular, measuring about 15m by 15m, defined by a low bank measuring up to about 0.5m high. A small rectangular building, the walls of which survive up to a height of about 1m, occupies the S corner of the enclosure. The farmstead lies in an area of extensive rig-and-furrow cultivation remains. The farmstead, marked on the OS 1st edition map as the ruined settlement of Braid, represents the remains of a small agricultural settlement of medieval or later date.

The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is irregular with maximum dimensions of 410m from its northernmost point to its southernmost point and 420m from its easternmost point to its westernmost point, bounded on the SW by a burn, on the NW by a fence and a burn, and on the NE by a dyke, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland