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Carie

Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Carie

Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Upper Carie

Canmore ID 172204

Site Number NN63NW 80

NGR NN 64649 38149

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 80 64649 38149.

This farmstead comprises three buildings and an enclosure on a knoll at the N edge of a pasture field. The principal building (BL00 1697) is set into the S side of the knoll. It measures 11.9m from E to W by 4.2m transversely within mortared rubble walls that stand up to 1.8m in height at the sides, and both gables are nearly intact. There is an entrance in the S side, a single cruck-slot in the N wall and a later pen has been constructed in the SW corner. An outshot extends 1.7m at the E end. A revetted terrace runs along the front of the building, to the S of which a holllow appears to mark the site of a midden. The second building (BL00 1698), immediately to the NW, measures 6.2m from NNW to SSE by 3.2m transversely within walls up to 1.6m in height. It is open at the SSE end and its N end has been incorporated into a field dyke that crosses the knoll from ENE to WSW. The third building (BL00 1699) has been set into the E side of the knoll, and its NNW end abuts the dyke. It measures internally 5.5m by 2m and has an entrance in the SSE end. Finally, the first and third buildings are linked by a bank which runs around the base of the knoll to form a D-shaped enclosure with the field dyke. Traces of bank can also be found to the N of the dyke, around the base of the N edge of the knoll, suggesting that the enclosure was considerably larger before the field dyke was laid out.

The farmstead is not shown on John Farquharson's 1769 Survey of the North Side of Loch Tay (National Archives of Scotland, RHP 973/1, Plan 8), which identifies this area as outfield and grassland. The two larger buildings (BL00 1697-8) are depicted roofed, together with the enclosure, on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix), while the 2nd edition of that map (Perthshire 1900, sheet lviii SE) shows all three buildings, though by then the smallest building (BL00 1699) was roofless.

(BL00 1697-9, 2560)

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 1 November 2000.

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