Alternative Names Tullymet Burn
Site type HORSE ENGINE PLATFORM, KILN, LIME KILN, TOWNSHIP
Canmore ID 73765
Site Number NO05SW 10
NGR NO 0053 5352
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish LOGIERAIT
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NO05SW 10 centred 0053 5352

For corn-drying kiln at NO 0040 5336, see NO05SW 11.

The settlement of Cragganfearn is on sloping ground above the Tullymet Burn with buildings grouped randomly together at an altitude of 270m - 280m. The settlement is at the top of the present day fields with rough grazing and sparse woodland up-slope to the SE. There are thirteen distinct buildings or structures. Two are circular, a lime kiln and a horse mill platform, the remainder are rectangular. Two buildings are still in use, an L-shaped steading built of dressed stone and mortar, with a corrugated asbestos roof, and a silage pit, which has been created by the re-use of an earlier building. The remaining nine buildings consist of low footings and heaps of undressed stone where walls have collapsed. Apart from the buildings still in use, the highest wall is 1.5m where it has been utilised as part of the silage pit.
All of the buildings, except for one, are shown as roofed on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map (Perthshire, xl, surveyed 1863, published 1867), but by the Second Edition survey (1894-1900) only the steading and one other building remain roofed.
The largest and probably earliest building on site is the most fragmentary and is not shown on any editions of the Ordnance Survey maps. It is situated behind the W wall of the steading and is aligned NW/SE, unlike the other long buildings on site, which are aligned approximately W/E. It is 17m long, but only one long axis and a few stones of an internal dividing wall remain. To its S is another long building measuring 15m by 5.6m externally, with one dividing wall and what may be a doorway on the S wall. This building was full of stone fall and nettles and appears to have been used as a dump in recent years. In 1985 there was a small 'window' feature visible in the dividing wall. To the S are two shorter, parallel buildings orientated NE/SW. They measure approximately 12m by 6m each and have a gap of 5.2m between them. The easternmost of these buildings was shown as roofed on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map and its SE wall has been heightened to accommodate a silage pit, whose other two walls are built on to this SE wall. The remaining buildings are all considerably smaller: to the E is a very broken building approximately 3 m square; E from this is a building 11m by 5.3m; and SE of this is a building 7m by 5.3m situated on the external corner of a large enclosure. The remaining two buildings lie in the NE of the site and both have small yards attached: The first measures 8.7m by 4.4m and has a yard 6.3m long, with rounded corners, attached to its W end. The second measures 9.7m by 5.2m and has a fireplace on the W wall and a yard measuring 9.5m by 7.7m attached to its E wall. The E gable wall of this building was standing in 1985, but is now reduced to footings.
The steading has a circular horse mill platform adjoining its N wall. This is shown as unroofed on both the First (Perthshire, xl, surveyed 1863, published 1867), and Second (1894-1900)Edition Ordnance Survey maps, suggesting that it may have been an open platform. On top of the platform is a horseshoe shaped structure of undressed stone, with metal pinnings, which may relate to a secondary form of mechanism: it stands 0.7m high and measures 3.1m by 2.5m. Approximately 20m NW of the steading is a lime kiln, built into a bank. The dry course of a mill lade runs from SE to NW along the edge of the site. It follows the inner course of the modern dyke downhill from the E then cuts under the dyke behind the steading, running around the horse mill platform and the lime kiln before re-joining the course of the dyke and running downhill to a stream below.
The 1851 census shows four families resided at Cragganfearn; by the Valuation Roll of 1888-9 it was described as 'vacant'. James Fleming, the 19th century athlete, was born at Cragganfearn in 1840.
Information from Jane and Hannah Scott, March 2010.

Notes and Activities

22 July 2009 to 16 February 2010

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Project Scotland's Rural Past (SRP)

Notes Sketch of Cragganfearn and photographs by Jane, Robert and Hannah Scott.

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11 March 2010

SRP NOTE

Project Scotland's Rural Past (SRP)

Notes The settlement of Cragganfearn is on sloping ground above the Tullymet Burn with buildings grouped randomly together at an altitude of 270m - 280m. The settlement is at the top of the present day fields with rough grazing and sparse woodland up-slope to the SE. There are thirteen distinct buildings or structures. Two are circular, a lime kiln and a horse mill platform, the remainder are rectangular. Two buildings are still in use, an L-shaped steading built of dressed stone and mortar, with a corrugated asbestos roof, and a silage pit, which has been created by the re-use of an earlier building. The remaining nine buildings consist of low footings and heaps of undressed stone where walls have collapsed. Apart from the buildings still in use, the highest wall is 1.5m where it has been utilised as part of the silage pit.
All of the buildings, except for one, are shown as roofed on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map (Perthshire, xl, surveyed 1863, published 1867), but by the Second Edition survey (1894-1900) only the steading and one other building remain roofed.
The largest and probably earliest building on site is the most fragmentary and is not shown on any editions of the Ordnance Survey maps. It is situated behind the W wall of the steading and is aligned NW/SE, unlike the other long buildings on site, which are aligned approximately W/E. It is 17m long, but only one long axis and a few stones of an internal dividing wall remain. To its S is another long building measuring 15m by 5.6m externally, with one dividing wall and what may be a doorway on the S wall. This building was full of stone fall and nettles and appears to have been used as a dump in recent years. In 1985 there was a small 'window' feature visible in the dividing wall. To the S are two shorter, parallel buildings orientated NE/SW. They measure approximately 12m by 6m each and have a gap of 5.2m between them. The easternmost of these buildings was shown as roofed on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map and its SE wall has been heightened to accommodate a silage pit, whose other two walls are built on to this SE wall. The remaining buildings are all considerably smaller: to the E is a very broken building approximately 3 m square; E from this is a building 11m by 5.3m; and SE of this is a building 7m by 5.3m situated on the external corner of a large enclosure. The remaining two buildings lie in the NE of the site and both have small yards attached: The first measures 8.7m by 4.4m and has a yard 6.3m long, with rounded corners, attached to its W end. The second measures 9.7m by 5.2m and has a fireplace on the W wall and a yard measuring 9.5m by 7.7m attached to its E wall. The E gable wall of this building was standing in 1985, but is now reduced to footings.
The steading has a circular horse mill platform adjoining its N wall. This is shown as unroofed on both the First (Perthshire, xl, surveyed 1863, published 1867), and Second (1894-1900)Edition Ordnance Survey maps, suggesting that it may have been an open platform. On top of the platform is a horseshoe shaped structure of undressed stone, with metal pinnings, which may relate to a secondary form of mechanism: it stands 0.7m high and measures 3.1m by 2.5m. Approximately 20m NW of the steading is a lime kiln, built into a bank. The dry course of a mill lade runs from SE to NW along the edge of the site. It follows the inner course of the modern dyke downhill from the E then cuts under the dyke behind the steading, running around the horse mill platform and the lime kiln before re-joining the course of the dyke and running downhill to a stream below.
The 1851 census shows four families resided at Cragganfearn; by the Valuation Roll of 1888-9 it was described as 'vacant'. James Fleming, the 19th century athlete, was born at Cragganfearn in 1840.
Information from Jane and Hannah Scott, March 2010.

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