Building record MAB8601 - BRIDGETOWN

Remains of the farmstead of Bridgetown which is depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps as a small, almost U-shaped building with another small single building to the west.

Remains of the farmstead of Bridgetown which is depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps as a small, almost U-shaped building with another small single building to the west. A mill pond lies to the north. Remains of two buildings, one of them standing gable high, and a mill pond still survive. A field survey was carried out in 2009 by CFA Archaeology prior to a proposed wind farm, which recorded The remains of two stone and mortar bonded buildings within an area of a recently planted coppice. Although the main elements of the farmstead survive in situ, parts of the south buildings gables have been removed. the surviving elevations, in some places 2 meters high, suggest that the building had one storey. A possible entrance is discernible in the north-east elevation. The second building was recorded directly north-east, part of which has been robbed out at some point, although in some places the walls survive to a height of 1 metre. An entrance is visible in the south-west elevation. There was no trace of the pond, and it is possible that it was filled in when the land was prepared for the coppicing.

ORDNANCE SURVEY, 1871, Ordnance Name Book, BANFFSHIRE,No23,19 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1360.

CFA ARCHAEOLOGY, 2009, PROPOSED WIND FARM AT TOBAY FARM, NEAR DUFFTOWN. CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSESSMENT, DBA and field survey (Bibliographic reference). SAB6873.

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Jun 21 2023 12:53PM