Waterhead
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Waterhead
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Glen Dye
Canmore ID 36159
Site Number NO68SW 8
NGR NO 6295 8369
NGR Description Centre No 6295 8369
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36159
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strachan
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO68SW 8 625 836.
Six longhouses, and rig and furrow in nine enclosures, which cover in all 15 ha, are situated on a S facing, 6 degree slope at 250 m. A small enclosure backs on to one of the longhouses and contains pronounced spade ridges. Enclosures to the W of the settlement show distinct straight rigs, with a wavelength of 12m, on which a later square stock enclosure has been built.
I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982.
An archaeological survey was undertaken on the abandoned rural settlement of Waterhead on the Water of Dye, Strachan, in July 1994, in advance of a proposed reservoir construction. The survey was designed to assess the archaeological potential of the development area, through the examination of documentary sources, aerial photography and fieldwalking. A total of twenty-two sites was located within the survey area (and on its boundary). While the existing NMRS plan of the area is more or less accurate with regard to the extent of the settlement, the survey has produced more detail of the abandoned settlement area. and identified additional structures associated with the depopulated Waterhead settlement. None of the sites encroached on the proposed reservoir location, and no sites were identified within the survey area to the S of the Water of Dye. It is probable that a further survey, conducted when the bracken is dormant, would reveal further structures.
Detailed report to be lodged with NMRS.
Sponsor: Grampian Regional Council.
CFA 1994g.
Indicated on Roy's Military Survey, 1750. Earlier turf footings noted below longhouse and rig-and-furrow cultivation.
Air photographic imagery: [BKS vertical] NO68SW 2714137, flown 1977 and AAS/81/3/S1/6, 15.
Visited by IAGS (AAS), 13 November 1980.
NMRS, MS/712/36.