Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653354

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/653354

ND12SW 42 102 249.

Minor deserted settlement comprising three buildings (one incorporated in the nearby broch outworks), a corn-drying kiln and field walls within an extensive area of former cultivation, now degraded pasture.

Visited by OS 9 November 1982.

A township comprising five unroofed buildings, two of which are long buildings, two enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xlii). Four unroofed buildings, one enclosure and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1964).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 November 1995.