Strone Baddoch

NO18SW 9 133 822

Smith notes Strone Baddoch under two site-numbers;

SW part of township - NO 134 823 - his site 49

NE part of township - NO 135 824 - his site 50

Near head-dyke on spur summit and on drift-covered ledges and knolls. A longhouse, 10m by 5m, with rounded corners. An enclosure clearly secondary in construction to the head-dyke measuring 25m by 40m. A two-partitioned longhouse, 9m by 5m. A group including longhouse, 9m by 5m, two oval sheals, 4m by 3m, with a ruinous outbuilding attached. A longhouse, 12m by 5m, with partitions, an oval sheal, 4m by 3m. A longhouse, 10m by 5m, partly modified into shooting butt. Oval sheal, 6m by 3m, and another, 4m by 3m set partly within rock outcrop. Tacked on to west of head-dyke, a longhouse, 8m by 3m and an oval sheal, 3m by 2m. Surrounding a rock knoll in Baddoch spur skyline, a longhouse, 7m by 4m, longhouse 6m by 3m, longhouse 8m by 3m, all sitting on a natural shelf with signs of ill-defined field-walls and stone clearance activity. Three sheals set into knoll flanks, each oval in plan and measuring 4m by 3m, generally using rock outcrop for rear wall. On a second rock knoll, a turf longhouse 12m by 3m, an oval sheal 4m by 3m, and another longhouse 6m by 3m.

South and slightly west of head-dyke, (at NN 133 821) a longhouse, 8m by 3m, and sheal, 3m by 2m, with a very small stone and turf enclosure. A further oval sheal, 4m by 3m.

J S Smith 1987.