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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648906

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648906

NC13SE 9 1697 3325

NC 169 333 Two structures, one 4 1/2m square and the other 7m in diameter, lie on the shore overlooking the dun (NC13SE 1).

T C Welsh 1971.

NC 1697 3325 There are about five small bothies here, none circular. Contemporary with depopulated buildings and cultivation to the NE.

Visited by OS (AA) 14 August 1974.

NC 170 332. Two stone enclosures, one subrectangular, 7.5m by 3.0m and 0.4m high, which may or may not have been roofed, the other a circular enclosure of bare stone, 7.0m in diameter and 0.3m high. Field clearance heaps occur among the undulating ground, which is bracken-covered. These structures are broadly contemporary with the early modern longhouse (20.0m by 4.0m and up to 1.4m high) and associated structures 140.0m to the NE.

Visited by OS (JB) 13 August 1980.

A farmstead comprising one unroofed building of two compartments and three enclosures, one of which is annotated as a fank, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xlix). One unroofed building, one unroofed structure and one enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1990).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 31 August 1995

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