The remains of Mid Bracco farm
NMRS Number: NS86NW 15.00
National Grid Reference: centred on NS 833 655
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This landscape is situated on the north flank of Black Hill, where there are the remains of Mid Bracco farm, comprising two buildings, at least four huts, a number of enclosures and an extensive area of rig-and-furrow cultivation. One building is stone-built and the other is turf-walled and surrounded by turf-walled enclosures. The field-system around the farmsteads appears to belong to at least three phases of use.

From 1710/15 to 1795 Mid Bracco was divided between two tenants, but was held by only one in 1801. The two buildings probably mark the locations of the 18th century steadings, with the stone-walled farmhouse replacing an earlier turf building when the farm became a single tenancy. The stone-walled building had fallen out of use by the date of the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (1859).

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