Archaeology Notes

Event ID 708851

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG85NW 4 centred on 831 578

8332 5783: Small corn-drying kiln deserted settlement. (No details given.)

M MacDonald 1992.

A township comprising sixty-four roofed, three partially roofed and eighteen unroofed buildings, eighteen enclosures, some field walls and parts of a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet lxxxi). One of the unroofed buildings is situated in an area marked as an Infants Burying Gound which was "formerly used as a burying place for infants under one year." (Name Book). Twenty-seven roofed, thirty-three unroofed buildings, several enclosures, some field walls and parts of a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).

Name Book 1881

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 24 April 1996

NG 834 582 The site name (Torran nam Tiodhlacaidh) means 'the little mound of the burial', and is one of a group of mounds around Loch Torridon which are associated locally with the burial of unbaptised infants. Such a mound was the subject of a rescue excavation in the 1970s at Shieldaig, and was dated to the Bronze Age.

M Macdonald 1995.

NG 8318 5768 Cruck slots still survive within this ruinous building.

J Wordsworth 1995.

An archaeological and historical assessment of the NTS Torridon Estate has been carried out intermittently over the past two years.

NG 829 579 ?Roundhouse. On the hillside above Glachacro are two rectangular buildings presumed to date to the last century. In the flat area between them are the possible remains of a roundhouse. Short lengths of curving wall are evident which, had the structure been complete, could have been part of a circular structure c 10m in diameter over walls c 0.2?0.3m high, spread to 1m.

Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland.

J Harden and J Wordsworth 1998