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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 749795
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/749795
NC35NE 9 355 594
The name signifies 'Stretching or Lengthened Pasture'.
Name Book 1878.
A single enclosure and a larger three compartment enclosure, which is annotated as a sheepfold, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xiv). The whole site is annotated as a sheepfold on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1988) and it comprises the previous larger enclosure now with four compartments and a double compartmented enclosure attached to it.
Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 17 August 1995.
