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Upper Carie

Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Upper Carie

Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 140390

Site Number NN63NW 35

NGR NN 64522 38440

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Kenmore (Perth And Kinross)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN63NW 35 64522 38440

A farmstead, comprising two roofed buildings, one unroofed structure and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix). One roofed, one unroofed building and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 February 1998.

The farmstead of Upper Carie stands in enclosed pasture on the E bank of a tributary of the Allt an Tuim Bhric, and comprises four buildings a partly-enclosed yard and two further enclosures. The two principal buildings, a house and a barn, stand at right angles to each other, forming the N and W sides of the yard, which is open to the S. The house (BL00 1694) measures 16.2m from ENE to WSW by 4.3m transversely within mortared rubble walls 1.8m in height at the sides. The gable ends have largely collapsed, though the gabled stone partition that divides the interior into two unequal parts remains intact, and is surmounted by a brick chimney. The larger W compartment has a central doorway on the SSE, flanked on either side by a splayed window opening, and there is a brick fireplace against the ENE wall. This was clearly the dwelling end of the building, and it was probably subdivided into two or more rooms, though the partitions do not survive. The smaller E compartment also has an entrance on the SSE; it may have originally served as a byre, though there was no internal drain visible on the date of visit. There are two substantial buttresses against the WSW gable of the building, indicating major structural problems at that end; an outshot, measuring 4m in length, abuts one of the buttresses. Finally, in front of the building there is a broad terrace, with a stone-faced midden in the yard beyond it.

The barn (BL00 1695) has a modern corrugated iron roof and is now used as a cattle shed. It measures overall 14.7m in length by 5.6m in breadth, and has an entrance in the centre of each side, a third entrance towards the N end of the ENE side and a small window high in the NNW gable. There are two enclosures attached to this building. One, to the S, measures about 17m by 11m; the other, to the W, is much larger, measuring 51m by 33m.

Across the yard from the barn, and immediately S of the E end of the house, there are the footings of a small outbuilding with large quantities of rubble and field-cleared stones piled against the outer faces of its walls, while the fourth building (BL00 1696), which measures internally 3.6m by 2.1m and is open at the E end, abuts the N side of the dyke around the large enclosure to the W of the barn.

This farmstead is not depicted on John Farquharson's 1769 Survey of the North Side of Loch Tay (National Archives of Scotland, RHP 973/1, Plan 8), which shows this area as outfield and grassland. The house and barn are, however, shown roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix), which also shows as unroofed the outbuilding on the E side of the yard, and two enclosures. The house and barn are again shown roofed on the 2nd edition of that map (Perthshire 1900, sheet lxix NW).

(BL00 1694-6, 2559)

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 1 November 2000.

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