Building record MAB31906 - AUCHENCHAPEL

Remains of features are visible on Lidar coverage (National Library of Scotland) over this area, including possible hut circles and rig and furrow.

Remains of features are visible on Lidar coverage (National Library of Scotland) over this area, including possible hut circles and rig and furrow. Site visit by G Logan in 2021 has recorded various remains. At NO1996565461 are the remains of a longhouse/byre house (with internal dividing wall) reduced ti grass-covered footings. It measures 11.6m by 4.2m, the internal wall 6m from the north end, and there is an entrance to the west. Close by, at NO1997665449, is a shieling type sub-rectangular hut, measuring 7.1m by 3, with an internal dividing wall and an entrance to the southeast. At NO1998365460 is a small rectangular structure, possibly a pen, comprising six arranged small boulders. Further south, at NO1998165408 is another shieling type hut with an attached semi-circular enclosure and a possible rectangular pen. The main structure measures 8.7m by 3.8m. To the south, at NO2000365358, are two adjacent longhouses/byre houses on a wide terrace. They survive only as grass covered footings, he north-western measuring 16.9m by 3.3m and the other 17m by 5.5m. Close by, at NO2000665362, is a possible small pen.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2022, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 22 (2021), pp23-5 (Bibliographic reference). SAB8314.

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