Archaeology Notes

Event ID 657643

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Cro nan Caorach: 'a small hollow where there had been houses and people living'; (four unroofed buildings shown on OS 6-inch map, 1965).

Name Book 1877.

Lying on both banks of the Allt Cro nan Caorach, on about the 140m contour, is a group of 4 well-preserved shielings. They are of 2, 3 and 4 cell types within turf mounds, the internal facings of stone are well preserved and inter-cell creeps are visible.

Information from R Miket, October 1989.