Archaeology Notes

Event ID 739717

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC81SW 41 815 110

Baletir.

W Roy 1747-55

Ascoilemore: a ruin where once stood a small clachan, a short distance W of Ascoile.

Name Book 1871.

Footings of c.7 buildings 8.5m by 4.0m to 37.0m by 4.0m, enclosures and kiln.

Visited by OS (RDL) 28 April 1964.

A township, comprising one unroofed building, three enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet lxxxviii). Four unroofed buildings, one enclosure and part of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1969).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 24 October 1995.