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Latitude: 57.012 / 57°0'43"N
Longitude: -3.558 / 3°33'28"W
OS Eastings: 305487
OS Northings: 792285
OS Grid: NO054922
Mapcode National: GBR KBL5.T20
Mapcode Global: WH5L8.90ZV
Entry Name: Lui Water, townships 800m to 2780m SE of Derry Lodge
Scheduled Date: 10 March 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7696
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships
Location: Crathie and Braemar
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
The monument comprises the remains of eight townships or farms along the north and south banks of the Lui Burn, together with other structures such as kilns, and extensive complexes of field banks and yards.
The townships vary in size, up to 15 separate buildings and huts, together with between one and four kilns (for both lime-burning and corn-drying), enclosures, field systems and rig and furrow cultivation. The buildings display a considerable range in size and design, expressing differences both in function and date. There is evidence for more than one phase of construction and cultivation. Some of the buildings lie outside the head dyke, which survives in good condition around the edge of much of the settled land.
The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of 1950m from its north-westernmost point to its south-easternmost, and a maximum of 950m from its north-easternmost point to its south-westernmost, to include the townships, their ancillary structures, their fields and cultivation remains, and areas around and between them in which traces of activity associated with their construction and use are likely to survive, all as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. The top 30cm of the track from Linn of Dee to Derry Lodge is excluded, to allow for ease of maintenance.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well-preserved complex of townships, complete with agriculture buildings and systems, which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of settlement and landuse in the pre-modern period. The evidence of more than one phase of construction and cultivation suggests that the monument might provide a rare opportunity to study the development of agricultural systems over time. Taken with other monuments of the same period on the Mar estate the monument has the potential to increase our understanding of the development of farming in upper Deeside.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 09 SE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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