Building record MAB34341 - LYNHORT

Depopulated settlement, depicted on the OS 1st edition map as a group of unroofed buildings.

Depopulated settlement, depicted on the OS 1st edition map as a group of unroofed buildings. To the north of the main burn are the footings of a longhouse with faint remains of a kailyard to its north, both sitting on an artificially raised platform (12m x 10m). The green mound to the south of the burn contains: a corn-drying kiln set into an east facing slope, the footings of a substantial rectangular building which has been progressively shortened, to its west the footings of an early longhouse, just visible (12m x 3.5m max), a rectangular stock enclosure, and an extremely long and narrow longhouse with an annexe almost as long. Downslope to the west is a circular stell with a possible earlier feature within and a later feature abutting it. A substantial, revetted, track runs along the W side of the mound and another track can be discerned at a slightly higher level. The heather-covered mound to the south is surmounted by a sub-square turf-banked enclosure, 8m x 4m, while across the burn to its south is another knoll capped with east-west running very low banks and a square field plot defined by corner boulders. The southmost feature is a quarry-pit indicated by a low grassy mound adjacent to a scoop circa 4m overall. On the improved ridge to the west may be seen traces of west-west aligned depressions, possibly robbed out/ ploughed out field boundaries of low banks visible on the south heather mound.

AAS/88/7/CT11-13, AAS/88/7/CT11-13 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB19798.

NO39W (1976) 2649016, NO39W (1976) 2649016 (Air-vertical Photograph). SAB15243.

SHEPHERD, IAG, 1988, DISCOVERY & EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND (Bibliographic reference). SAB1836.

Mar 1 1989 , IO 12-19, IO 12-19 (Ground Photograph). SAB33634.

Mar 1 1989 , IP 2-11, IP 2-11 (Ground Photograph). SAB33636.

Nov 22 1988 , AAS/88/12/CT12,14,18-9,39, AAS/88/12/CT12,14,18-9,39 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB19792.

Nov 22 1988 , AAS/88/12/S20/13-6, AAS/88/12/S20/13-6 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB15245.

Nov 22 1988 , AAS/88/12/S21/1-14, AAS/88/12/S21/1-14 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB15246.

Sep 12 1988 , HT 10-31, HT 10-31 (Ground Photograph). SAB15244.

Sep 18 1988 , HW 27-32, HW 27-32 (Ground Photograph). SAB33569.

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Oct 22 2021 3:09PM