Field Visit

Date 7 September 2012

Event ID 993804

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993804

NH 7988 0328 The desk-based assessment identified a flat, raised platform adjoining the steading, surrounded with field stone walls, on the 1st Edition OS 6” map of 1870. A walkover survey on 7 September 2012 located the site, which was identified as a mid-19th-century stackyard, probably constructed at the same time as the steading and farmhouse. Considerable work must have been required to level off the top of a natural knoll and it seems possible that this might have been done with the intention of building here. The substantial wall constructed around the stackyard, 19th-century in character, would have formed a very effective barrier to livestock.

Archive: HAS. Report: Highland HER

Funder: Mr A Macpherson-Fletcher

Lynne McKeggie and John Wood, Highland Archaeology Services, 2013

(Source: DES)