Oblique aerial view of settlement site and sheepfold at Leataidh, Strath Fleet, Sutherland, looking W.
SC 1944840
Description Oblique aerial view of settlement site and sheepfold at Leataidh, Strath Fleet, Sutherland, looking W.
Date 28/1/1998
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1944840
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Leataidh is a former settlement extending for some 2km along the NE side of the glen 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. at one corner of sheep fank, although not readily seen in this image), burial cairns, houses, corn-drying kilns, enclosures, rig and furrow, head dykes and clearance cairns. 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 fank near centre of image, and the bracken infestation. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2019/15
External Reference S0692
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