Ground plan of corn-drying kiln

Description Ground plan of corn-drying kiln

Date 1993

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DC 27005 PO

Category Prints and Drawings

Copies SC 436107

Scope and Content Corn-drying kiln, Ryntean, Glen Lui, Mar Lodge Estate, Aberdeenshire Glen Lui was well populated in the 18th century, with eight townships, until the glen was cleared in 1776 to encourage an increase in deer for hunting. The remains include dwellings, barns, kilns, enclosures, cultivation rigs and sheilings. The stone footings of a corn-drying kiln and barn are set into a natural hillock beside the Lui Water at Ryntean (Ruighe an t-Sidhein). Thick walls were built of clay-bonded stone rubble, and the circular kiln was faced with coursed stonework. Mar Lodge estate was part of the medieval Earldom of Mar. The Forest of Mar became a hunting reserve in medieval times and was revived as such in the 19th century, after a period of sheep-farming in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Scale 1:100

Medium PMT

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