Building 2
Building 2 is unexcavated, but its existence and approximate size are known from observation of the grassy banks with stones showing and also because the face of its southern wall was exposed during the excavation of the bastle house. Other than its overall size of about 12m x 6m and that, similar to other buildings on the site, it has stone footings with clay bonding for the walls, nothing further is known.
Building 3
Building 3 had been almost totally destroyed prior to excavation. There is an alignment of stones still visible and what appears to be a doorstep with a pathway leading from it towards the cobbled area adjacent to building 5. The modern stones mark the place where extensive burning had taken place on a roughly circular patch of cobbles. This may have been the site of a corn drying kiln, perhaps built or used on the site of an earlier structure. Beneath what appeared to be a ruinous wall of this structure was a dispersed hoard of eleven silver sixpences from the reign of Elizabeth of England. The coins must have been lost, or hidden, around 1600 as the latest date in the hoard was 1595. The earliest coin was dated 1566, indicating how such coins were used for considerable time and not necessarily in the country of their origin.
Abutting on the bastle house walls are two short lengths of low drystane walling. It is possible that these were built to form a catchment area to assist in driving animals through the bastle house door. Such features are known in early turf structures associated with animal management and also from later drystane dyke structures such as sheep folds and buchts. Lying on top of the northern wall and used in its construction, a rubbing stone for a saddle quern of greywacke was found. It seems likely that this is a pre-historic quern from the nearby Bronze Age house sites, which was picked up and used in the fermtoun era.
The courtyard in front of the bastle house was crudely cobbled and had a system of drains to keep the area dry. The slate covered drain in front of the house joined at right angles another open drain which ran along the north wall of the bastle and on towards the burn.
Building 4
Building 4 was also nearly all removed. Only the stones of the west gable survived, visible alongside the drystane dyke. It is interesting to note that the style of the dyke changes distinctly as it crosses over this building, so it may be that the dyke was built against each side of building 4 while it was still in use or at least still standing to the height of the dyke. Drystane dykes in this area are known to have been built from about 1800 and it is unlikely that any pre-date that time. However, a trench cut in the field to determine what the building could be, showed that it had been thoroughly removed. A slight bank in the field indicates the line of a wall at right angles to the dyke.
