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Event ID 769191

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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A township and a crofting township are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Island of Harris 1882, sheet xxii). The township (NG 014 865) comprises eight roofed, one partially roofed, three unroofed buildings and two enclosures. The crofting township comprises twenty-one roofed buildings, which include a school and a smithy, two partially roofed buildings, seven unroofed buildings and several enclosures. A head-dyke is also depicted.

This site is located within the modern towns of Leverburgh and Obbe as shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 March 1997

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