Description

This is a group of three buildings, together with remnants of several enclosures to the S, situated on a dry rise surrounded by boggy ground. The walls of the buildings stand, in places, to full height, and are surrounded by traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation.

The area proposed for scheduling is a rectangle 150m NW to SE and 250m NE to SW with its N and S corners at 14906474 and 14886446 respectively. This will include all of the buildings of the monument, the enclosures, the rig-and-furrow and an area around them in which further traces of their use and construction will survive. This area is marked in red on the attached map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

This monument is of national importance because it is a very well preserved example of a later pre-improvement farmstead on the edge of marginal land roughly halfway between Cairnscarrow and the Water of Luce. It may preserve much information about the later pre-improvement use and organisation of the landscape especially when put in the context of other nearby farmsteads and shielings.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland