Murray, H. K. and Murray, J. (2017). Drumlaire Croft, Whitecairns, Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire: Murray Archaeological Services Ltd (MAS). https://doi.org/10.5284/1047347. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Drumlaire Croft, Whitecairns, Aberdeenshire
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Series:		 Murray Archaeological Services Ltd (MAS) unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 A standing building was undertaken prior to the demolition of this small Aberdeenshire estate croft, with provision for the tenant to derive his main income from a craft, while having sufficient land to provide for his family. While many such crofts with a workshop did exist in the late 19th and early 20th century, it is rare to have surviving oral and documentary evidence for the function of the craft buildings. One building, which is of proportions unusual in a farm of this size (18 acres), was a joiner's and millwright's workshop with a loft for storage of timber. The identification of the building as a joiner's and millwright's workshop is supported by the oral history of the croft linked with the documentary evidence of the Cormack family of joiners and millwrights (threshing mills) who lived at Joiner's Croft, Whitecairns in the first quarter of the 20th century. The workshop was built after 1866 and before 1899 on the basis of the map evidence. Mr Eleazor Cormack, millwright at Whitecairns died aged 67 in 1903 and had lived in the same house all his life and left his sons to continue the business. A second building comprised a small L-plan steading, suited to a farm of some 18 acres. The internal arrangements have been lost but it probably comprised a byre with a barn and cart shed and probably stabling for 2 horses. A chimney at the S gable suggests that there had been a small bothy at this end.
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Author:		 Hillary K Murray
J Murray
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Publisher:		 Murray Archaeological Services Ltd (MAS)
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic Environment Scotland (OASIS Reviewer)
Aberdeenshire, Angus, Moray and Aberdeen City (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2017
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Site: Drumlaire Croft
County: Aberdeenshire
Parish: BELHELVIE
Country: Scotland
Grid Reference: 392360, 817870 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) AGRICULTURAL BUILDING (Monument Type Scotland)
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OASIS Id: mas1-299951
OBIB: MAS 2017-18
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Created Date:		 02 May 2018