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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 658462
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/658462
NG51NW 3 516 192.
NG 516 192. A depopulated township comprising about 10 ruined houses situated on the rocky valley bottom at the head of Camus Fhionnairidh. There is some lazy-bed cultivation in evidence on the lower valley slopes.
In the vicinity of the present home of Camusunary at 515 198 are the ruins of a substantial house and its outbuildings, probably the house of the sheep-run which succeeded the old township.
Visited by OS (C F W) 17 June 1961; Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/ 372: 4069-70
A township, comprising two unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xlv). Nine unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1991).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 13 November 1996.
Site recorded in the spring of 1997 during a field survey carried out by Martin Wildgoose and associates on part of the John Muir Trust's Strathaird Estate. The surveyed portion lies to the S and E of Bla Bheinn, some 3000ha of undulating lowland terrain lying between the coast and the Cuillin mountains.
NG 5160 1930 (centre) Deserted settlement (NG51NW 3).
A full report is lodged with the John Muir Trust. A fuller summary is lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsor: John Muir Trust.
K Miller 1998
