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A historic environment assessment was required by Tilhill Forestry to inform a proposed planting scheme at Cleuchfoot Farm, near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway. A desk-based assessment and walkover survey was designed to establish a sound baseline on the historic environment within the landholding and to make recommendations on its management. The findings of the assessment and survey are presented in this report. Nine historic environment sites were identified within the assessment area and considered within this report. These are a medieval chapel; a farmstead; a settlement; an enclosure, a cottage, a field system of banks and enclosures, two clearance cairns, an 18th century road and a rig block associated with one of two sites recorded in a previous field survey. A further three blocks of rig were identified during the survey. Two sites recorded in a previous phase of field survey (Portwood 2017) were also visited as part of the current works as they were located to the immediate northeast of the assessment area, within the limits of the buffer extending beyond it, along with a third site, farmstead, which again lay sufficiently close (i.e. with its protective buffer potentially encroaching within the assessment area) to be included. Based on the evidence gathered for this assessment positive management has been recommended to safeguard eight sites. |
