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Remains of longhouses and shielings. A two compartmented, square-ended longhouse 9 m by 4 m and a bow-ended, compartmented, two-entranced longhouse, 13 m by 4 m. Also oval sheals, 4 m by 3 m and the foundations of square buildings. RCAHMS survey (1993) recorded six huts, a pen, a stock enclosure and a possible sheep-dip scattered over a distance of 350 m on the west bank of the Geldiue Burn. The huts are between 2.5 m and 6.6 m in length, and 1.35 m and 2.6 m in breadth, the walls 0.6-0.75 m thick and standing up to 0.7 m high. Two of the huts have rubble-faced walls embanked with turf on the outside. One is subdivided to two compartments, with an outshot at the northeast end and an adjacent midden heap. Two other buildings also have adjacent middens. The stock enclosure is roughly rectangular in plan, measuring 14.4 m by 10.4 m within rubble-faced walls reduced to 0.3 m in height. It overlies two huts. The sheep-dip comprises a low ramp leading to two rows of flat boulders which may have supported a timber passage. At the southeast end is a pit. A rectilinear stand of cobbles to the southwest of the pit may have served as a drying stance for the dipped sheep. Walkover survey by Highland Archaeology Services along the river Dee in 2023 (NO08NW0055) encompassed the part of this site and recorded the low stone footings of a previously known small structure. This was sub-rectangular, 4 m by 3 m, and up to 0.4 m high, with a possible entrance in the south end. A further structure was noted circa 8 m to the west, measuring 7.5 m by 4.5 m, with a possible potato storage pit between them.
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