Aerial view of Leataidh, Strath Fleet, near Rogart, East Sutherland, looking NW.
SC 1896290
Description Aerial view of Leataidh, Strath Fleet, near Rogart, East Sutherland, looking NW.
Date 1998
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1896290
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Leataidh is a former agricultural settlement extending for some 2km along the elevated ground to the NE of the Abhainn Leataidh/Lettie River. There is evidence of occupation from the early Bronze Age through to the early 19th-C. Features include hut circles (e.g. near lower right foot of image; also at one corner of sheep flank), burial cairns, houses, corn-drying kilns, rig and furrow and head dykes. At least 6 townships are thought to have existed. These are thought to have been cleared in 1809-11, to make way for a sheep farm. This accounts both for the rectangular sheepfold or flank near centre of image, and the extensive bracken infestation. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2019/15
External Reference P10699
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