Oblique aerial view of Srath Carnaig, near Golspie, East Sutherland, looking E.

Description Oblique aerial view of Srath Carnaig, near Golspie, East Sutherland, looking E.

Date 2000

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1906923

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content At lower left, on open hill above bridge, an enclosure is associated with a hut circle and corn kiln. To left of centre, at sub-triangular enclosure, is the former township of Dalnamain, with building footings, corn kiln, rig and furrow, and a metal-working site. In sub-rectangular enclosure beyond, but not visible on image, is a standing stone on a low cairn, known in the 19th-C as the Swedish Man's Grave. The open hill at upper left has two field systems with hut circles, recorded respectively as Loch Ruagaidh and Alt [Allt] Loch Ruagaidh / Coill' an Iarsaidh / Srath Carnaig / Dalnamain. Nearer at hand, between the two wooded watercourses, was part of the farm of Allt na h-Innse Ionar. At right edge of image, dykes and vegetation mark the former township of Achtaduaig, including a field system, longhouses, numerous other buildings and two corn kilns. What may be an unrecorded hut circle (first noted by J S Bone) is seen to left of nearby curved dyke at NH 72488 98283 approx. Finally, a fortified Iron Age enclosure occupies the summit of the knoll known as Torri Falaig, in woodland near upper right corner of image, before the road emerges from the trees. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2019/15

External Reference P11570

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap