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Remains of longhouses or shielings. Located above the track is a longhouse, 12m by 5m, with a circular kiln at the west end. Another longhouse has three partitions, 28m by 5m, with a bowed outbuilding at the west end. Mature pines are growing through the foundations. Below the track on a river terrace is an area enclosed by a dyke and two longhouses, 15m by 5m, plus a circular stone-lined pit. There are small field clearance cairns both round and linear, walls and small enclosed plots, and an area of rig and furrow. The head-dyke is cut by the River Dee to the west. Walkover survey was carried out by Cameron Archaeology in June-July 2015 to assess damage on the Mar Lodge estate resulting from flooding in the wake of storm Bertha. Walkover survey by Highland Archaeology Services along the river Dee in 2023 (NO08NW0055) included the riverside part of this site, and noted two features, previously recorded by Canmore. At NO 04835 8924 – NO 04852 89276 were the tumbled remains of a drystone wall, 0.6m wide and up to 0.6m high, running down the east side of an area of improved land. It forms part of a much larger enclosure that joins with a second section of walling (NO 04488 89373 – NO 04537 89381) which runs roughly parallel with the modern track. This may be the settlement named Crag Fadrik on the Gordon Map (1636-1652) and named Craigfarage on the Roy Highlands map (1747-52).
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