Building record MAB10838 - CROFTS OF STARHILL

Remains of farmstead, depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps as a group of three buildings and an enclosure.

Remains of farmstead, depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps as a group of three buildings and an enclosure. It now comprising the ruins of three buildings, one of them a mill, six stack-bases and an enclosure. The axle of the mill-wheel still visible in a wheelpit at the south end of the westernmost of the buildings, The wheel was fed by a small millpond to the west-southwest and the lade was carried to mill along a low embankment. Water was returned to ditch which marks the side of one of the fields, along a lintelled drain. The mill and lade built between 1874 and 1902. The remains of the farmstead were recorded by CFA field survey in 2009. The survey also recorded a ditch running alongside the enclosure which may cut an earlier, now L-shaped, feature associated with the farmstead.

ORDNANCE SURVEY, 1871, Ordnance Name Book, No12(1871) 50 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1360.

CFA ARCHAEOLOGY, 2009, PROPOSED WIND FARM AT HILL OF DAVIDSTON, NR KEITH: CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSESSMENT, Site 9 (Bibliographic reference). SAB6677.

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Sep 24 2019 10:53AM