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Depopulated settlement comprising the remains of longhouses and several corn kilns or limekilns (at NO2419 9532 and NO2416 9530). There may be more grass-covered foundations in the area. The OS 1st edition map shows five unroofed buildings, a limekiln and a sheepfold. On the 2nd edition map the limekiln appears to be disused, annotated as an 'old limekin'. A walkover survey of the southern part of the site was carried out by Cameron Archaeology in May 2024 ahead of proposed new dwellinghouse. This recorded 17 features on the east and west sides of the burn, including a sheepfold, remains of three enclosures, foundations of five buildings, clearance cairns, a retaining wall and possible foundations of a bridge. The roughly rectangular sheepfold is depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps: the walls, up to 1.3 m high, taper from 1.1 m wide at the base to 0.6 m at the top. Feature 2, 2A (surviving as a low turf covered bank adjacent to the burn) may be the remains of a mill. To the west was a small clearance cairn (Feature 3) circa 2.5 m in diameter. Feature 5 is an enclosure defined by a low turf covered bank, 0.3 – 0.6 m high, and 0.9 – 1.8 m wide: the enclosure extended beyond the west side of the survey area. Feature 7 may be the remains of a building, comprising a sub-rectangular turf platform measuring 3.8 m by 8.1 m, hollowed in the centre with remains of possible walls around the periphery. To the north, another turf covered platform (Feature 8) retained two courses of drystone walling (0.7 m high) along the southwest side. The structure comprised two rooms, the main structure 6 m by 9 m with an entrance in the south wall, with an offshoot 5.3 m by 4.1 m. Further north were the foundations of a two-room structure (Feature 9), shown on historic OS maps, and measuring 6 m by 17.7 m with turf covered walls up to 0.6 m high. The corners appear rounded. Both rooms had an entrance on the south wall, the narrower room to the west suggested to be a cart house or for housing animals. A drystone wall (Feature 10) ran for 26.5 m along the east side of the north-south section of burn. Two clearance cairns (Features 11, 12) were recorded along the line of the wall, the southern one suggested to be possible remains of bank reinforcement that supported a bridge across the burn. On the opposite side of the burn was a 5.5 m long drystone wall built into the west bank: a metal frame and wooden boards noted in the vicinity may have been the remains of a bridge, though not clearly related. On the east side of the burn Feature 14 comprises the remains of a longhouse shown on the 1st edition OS map (but not the 2nd edition), measuring 23,5 m by 5.5 m, the walls up to 0.8 m high. To the south an area of low turf covered bank and lines of stone with possible clearance heaps appeared to form three sides of an enclosure (Feature 15), though the feature is indistinct. Its eastern bank appears to terminate at a clearance cairn (Feature 16). A second enclosure (feature 17) immediately west comprised low vegetation covered banks on its north and east side: the west side was formed by the bur, but a south bank was not evident.
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