Clova Castle
Corn Drying Kiln (Post Medieval), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Township (Post Medieval)
Site Name Clova Castle
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Post Medieval), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Township (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 254355
Site Number NO37SW 30
NGR NO 32041 73446
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/254355
- Council Angus
- Parish Cortachy And Clova
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Field Visit (15 June 1999)
NO37SW 30 32041 73446
This township, which comprises at least ten buildings and huts, one corn-drying kiln, several enclosures and a head-dyke, lies at the foot of the SW flank of Ben Reid, immediately NW of Clova Castle (NO37SW 1). A head-dyke, now reduced to fragmentary lengths of grass-grown bank, extends across the hillside for some 400m to the NW. Seven of the buildings and huts and the kiln are disposed along the length of the dyke, standing to both sides of it. The buildings measure from 7.5m to 12m in length by up to 3.1m in breadth within walls reduced to footings, and the huts measure from 2.5m to 5.6m in internal length. The kiln (CLOVA99 395, NO 32000 73452), which is set into a NE-facing slope at the SE end of the township, measures 2.2m in diameter within a faced-rubble wall 1.3m in thickness and up to 0.5m in height. It has a flue on the SW. To the N of the E end of the head-dyke there are two conjoined enclosures, lying N and S of each other, and measuring respectively 160m from E to W by 80m and 150m from E to W by 120m. Three huts are built against the common bank between the two enclosures.
(CLOVA99 383-6, 393-4, 396-9)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB, MFTR) 15 June 1999