Glenbuchat Heritage

22 Ryntaing, ruined sheephouses above Farm

View down the valley from above Ryntaing. Ruins presumably of farm buildings


Site Type SHEEPFOLD
County ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish GLENBUCHAT
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
NGR NJ 3360 2045
Latitude, Longitude 57.269853N, 3.102661W
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Archaeological Notes
NJ32SW 2 3360 2045

Situated 290m NW of the farmstead of Ryntaing (NJ32SW 1.00), there are the ruins of two sheep houses set on the NE and SW sides respectively of a narrow yard or enclosure some 6.3m broad. The NE building measures 10.9m from NW to SE by 3.2m within dry-stone walls 0.6m thick and up to 2m high at the SE end. This gable has largely collapsed but the lintelled entrance is still intact. A second entrance, in the SW side, where the wall has been reduced to a height of about 0.6m, gives access to the yard between the buildings. The SW building measures 11.4m from NW to SE by 3.1m within dry-stone walls 0.75m thick and 2.6m high at the SE gable, where there is a small square aperture set above the lintel of the entrance. The remains of a disused sheep-dip lie adjacent to the SE end of the SW wall.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 14 May 1997.