Publication drawing; Plan of Watcarrick moated site.
SC 382036
Description Publication drawing; Plan of Watcarrick moated site.
Date 13/3/1995
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 382036
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 32288
Scope and Content Plan of a moated enclosure at Watcarrick, Dumfries and Galloway. Redrawn from DC 32423 for publication with comparative plans of moated sites. Between 1153 and 1165, Robert Avenel, the landowner, gifted land to Melrose Abbey who appear to have built a monastic grange here, about 140m south of Bankhead steading. A pair of earthen banks and a flat-bottomed ditch enclose the remains of a burial-ground. This represents the churchyard of the medieval chapel of Watcarrick, which is first recorded in 1305 and was abandoned by 1722. A grange was the centre of a monastic farmsteading. Lay-brothers or monks worked on the land and were housed at the grange, living under the monastic rule. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Inv. fig. 219
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