Assynt's Hidden Lives: An Archaeological Survey of the Parish

Date 2009 - 2010

Event ID 624669

Category Project

Type Project

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A survey was carried out in Assynt parish over the winter of 2009-2010. Over 220 sites were recorded and detailed topographic surveys were carried out in four study areas: Glenleraig, Inchnadamph, Ledbeg and Borralan. The project recorded sites and monuments of all periods, including chambered cairns, burnt mounds, hut circles, mills, farmsteads and modern buildings, consisting of nearly 500 individual structures. A project website hosts the data collected during the project and the archive has been deposited with Highland Council’s HER and the RCAHMS.

Funder: Heritage Lottery Fund, Leader Plus

G Cavers, G Hudson, R Noble and G Sleight 2010

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
624780	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	A modern pier and associated containers providing fishing boat moorings. [...]	7 December 2009
624886	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	A well preserved Atlantic roundhouse with walls averaging 3.5m thick and standing to over 2.5m in height is sited on a tidal islet in Loch Ardbhair. The outer wall face is visible on the north side, but obscured by rubble elsewhee. The roundhouse has an internal diameter of 7m. There are stairs to the left of what appears to be the original the entrance on the SE side. Three steps are visible, c.0.7m wide lead between inner and outer walls. The entrance to the structure is 0.7m wide at the internal wall face, widening at the exterior. The rubble from the collapse of the walls spreads to c.4m out from the outer wall, and there is evidence that the S side is slumping/collapsing. [...]	7 December 2009
624883	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Quantities of slag can be seen at this point, as noted in previous records, perhaps related to bloomery. [...]	7 December 2009

Assynt's Hidden Lives: An Archaeological Survey of the Parish

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