Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651325

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC84SE 7 895 445.

A complex, substantial and long-lived farmstead whose most striking feature is a 74m longhouse which has been extended at least twice.

Three other longhouses also occur, in varying stages of dilapidation, as well as what may be a byre.

R J Mercer 1980.

A farmstead comprising three unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and one of which has two compartments, and a circular structure, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xxxviii). Four unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and one which has two compartments, are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10, 560 map (1962).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 24 August 1995