Plains Farm
Building (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Drain (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary(S) (Period Unassigned), Quarry(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Plains Farm
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Drain (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary(S) (Period Unassigned), Quarry(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 81295
Site Number NO01SE 15
NGR NO 0962 1029
NGR Description Centred NO 0962 1029
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81295
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Forteviot
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO01SE 15 centred 0962 1029
Quarry (disused) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1978.
Extends onto map sheet and covers portions of Forteviot and Arngask parishes.
The remains of a farm cottage, depicted as roofed on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Fife and Kinross 1854, sheet 15), some field banks, a drain, quarrying and some field clearance were recorded to the W of Plains Farm during the course of a pre-afforestation survey by AOC(Scotland) Ltd.
J O'Sullivan and S Carter, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, September 1994.
NMRS, MS/738/15.
Plains Farm (Forteviot and Arngask parishes): forestry survey. Archaeological survey at Plains Farm was conducted by AOC (Scotland) Ltd in advance of proposed forestry development. The survey area is about 1.1 sq km in extent and is centred at NO 097 100.
Six sites were recorded by the survey, including a ruined cottage and byre, a quarried drain, several rock quarries, a group of embanked dykes, and a rubble spread.
Plains Farm is recorded on several early maps and may well perpetuate the site of a medieval farm settlement. Few or no features survive from earlier periods in the life of the farm and the quarrying, drainage works and ruined farm cottage which are the major elements of the present survey appear to represent a vigorous period of improvement and reorganisation in the 19th century.
List of sites recorded:
1 NO 0958 1059 Rubble spread
2 NO 094 105 Quarries
3 NO 0953 1043 Dykes
4 NO 0962 1029 Farm cottage and byre
5 NO 0969 1019 Quarry
6 NO 0960 1018 Quarried drain
Sponsor: Historic Scotland.
J O'Sullivan 1994.