Corncockle Moss
Classifications: Crannog(Period Unknown)
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Location Details
Local authority: Dumfries And Galloway
Parish: Applegarth
Former region: Dumfries And Galloway
Former district: Annandale And Eskdale
Former county: Dumfries-Shire
Further details
Site number: NY08NE 51
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 97540
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Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 759089
NY08NE 51 c. 085 865
(Location cited as NY 085 865: reference to excavation in 1863 by Sir William Jardine). Crannog of log pavement type measuring 150ft (45.7m) by over 30ft (9.1m); brushwood, layer of ferns, moss and/or peat, stones and hearth(s) noted.
G E Oakley 1973.
Listed as possible crannog in survey of crannogs in the SW Scotland.
NMRS, MS/863/1; J W Barber and B A Crone 1993.
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| Archive reference | Title | Catalogue level | Preview |
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| MS 863/1 | Report on a survey of crannogs in the south-west of Scotland (and excavations at Buiston) - Crannogs; A Diminishing Resource? | Item Level |  |
References
Barber and Crone J W and B A. (1993) 'Crannogs; a diminishing resource? A survey of the crannogs of southwest Scotland and excavations at Buiston Crannog', Antiquity 67 256 1993 Page(s): 524-5, no. 51 fig. 2
Feachem R W. (1956a) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 3rd 33 1954-5 Page(s): 62
Munro R. (1882b) Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs: with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake dwellings in England, Edinburgh. Page(s): 245 RCAHMS Shelf Number: E.9.1.MUN
Oakley G E. (1973) Scottish crannogs, Bound photocopy of typescript M Phil thesis presented to University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Dept of Archaeology, 2v. Page(s): vol. 1, 37 RCAHMS Shelf Number: E.9.1.OAK
RCAHMS. (1920) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Seventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Dumfries, Edinburgh. Page(s): lviii RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.1.INV(7)
RCAHMS. (1997a) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape, Edinburgh. Page(s): 306, no. 1084 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.7.DUM
Stuart J. (1871a) 'Note on communication of Lady John Scott, descriptive of wooded structures at Spottiswoode, in Berwickshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 8 1868-70 Page(s): 19
Stuart J. (1868d) 'Notice of a group of artificial islands in the Loch of Dowalton, Wigtonshire, and of other artificial islands or "Crannogs" throughout Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 1864-6 Page(s): 163-5
