Craigies, Glen Buchat
Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric)
Site Name Craigies, Glen Buchat
Classification Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Peatfold; Upper Glenbuchat
Canmore ID 137941
Site Number NJ31NE 95
NGR NJ 3550 1951
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/137941
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glenbuchat
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ31NE 95 3550 1951
See also NJ31NE 84.
This grass-grown ring-ditch house is situated on a gentle E-facing slope immediately E of a large embanked enclosure probably associated with shieling activity (for which, see NJ31NE 84). It measures about 8.5m in diameter over a ring-ditch which has a well-defined outer edge, especially on the W, and a barely discernible external bank.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 15 May 1997.
Scheduled (with NJ31NE 84) as 'Peatfold, shielings, enclosure and ring-ditch house 950m N of... the remains of a later prehistoric ring-ditch house, a group of 15 shieling huts and a large enclosure with three small huts attached, of late medieval or post-medieval date, visible as a series of earth and stone banks. It lies in heather moorland at 440m above sea level, towards the N end of Upper Glenbuchat, beneath a prominent crag known as Eagles' Stone. The ring-ditch house measures 8.5m in diameter and has a well-defined outer edge, especially on the W. The shieling huts are rectilinear and range in size from 5m by 4m up to 12m by 6m. The enclosure is polygonal and measures up to 117m from E to W by 100m transversely within the bank. A small hut or pen is attached to the outer face of the bankmidway along the N side; another two huts or pens are respectively attached to the inner face of the bank 30m S of the NE corner, and the outer face of the bank 2m N of the SE corner.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 28 September 2007.