Monument record MHG28097 - Toreis-Aite

Created automatically by NMRS Register Utility
User: Admin, Date: Fri 10 Mar 2000
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NC70NW 89 7049 0553

This township lies on a boulder-strewn ridge to the SE of a rocky knoll lying between two unnamed tributaries of the Torbreck Burn, and comprises the remains of five buildings and at least three turf-and-stone banked enclosures.
Four of the buildings (ROG95 583-5, 587) measure between 5.7m by 2.3m (ROG95 587) and 8.1m by 3.3m (ROG95 584) within faced-rubble footings or stony banks up to 0.9m in thickness and 0.4m in height. Two of these buildings (ROG95 584, 585) overlie earlier, much longer, buildings, the former of which has been a byre-house. Further phasing in the remains of the township is evident in one of the buildings (ROG95 587) which is overlain by an enclosure bank. The fifth building (ROG95 586) has two compartments and is much larger than the others, measuring 14.5m from E to W by 3.8m transversely within faced-rubble footings 0.8m in thickness and 0.4m in height. It is one of two buildings (also ROG95 585) within the group which has an enclosure butted onto it.
The boulder-strewn ridge to the ESE of the township bears faint traces of ridging (ROG95 1004), measuring up to 5m between furrows. A pit (NC 7053 0550), measuring 2m across and 0.4m in depth, of unknown function lies in a patch of rough ground at the W fringe of the cultivated ground.
(ROG95 583-7, 1004)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 8 June 1995