Aerial view of Strath Sgitheach long house, enclosures and rigs, near Dingwall, Easter Ross, looking W.

Description Aerial view of Strath Sgitheach long house, enclosures and rigs, near Dingwall, Easter Ross, looking W.

Date 21/2/2010

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

Catalogue Number DP 341996

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content A general view, looking W across both a pre-improvement settlement recorded in a 1989 pre-afforestation survey. This was centred on a longhouse at NH 5315 6358 but largely obscured here by deep snow, more prominent are two square enclosures lying to the SE beside the river. These are shown on current OS mapping. More obvious is a two-roomed stone-walled structure now derelict and unroofed that sits in its own rectangular enclosure and both are aligned NE/SW, neither are currently recorded. The 1st edition OS map shows 2 roofed structures here in 1880. A single roofed building was shown here on the 1904 OS 2nd edition survey and it was still shown as roofed on the 1969 OS edition map. Earlier broad rigs are visible at the top right of this photo. A cup marked stone has been recorded within this enclosure. Note also the rigs and enclosures to the right of the photo extending up the slope to the N. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D1641

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