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Alltdubh
Building (Period Unassigned), Dam (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Alltdubh
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Dam (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 103376
Site Number NH45NW 17
NGR NH 4085 5510
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/103376
- Council Highland
- Parish Contin
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH45NW 17 4085 5510
A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet lxxxvii). One unroofed building is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1992).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 7 March 1996.
Srp Note (10 January 2011)
The eastmost of a group of three farmsteads is centred on NH 4086 5509 and located above and S of the Allt Dubh. It occupies an open flattish area extending for some 500m x 150m across a N facing slope much of which is bounded by a fragmentary head dyke. The hillside is covered in birch woodland and much overgrown with bracken particularly in the E part. The higher slopes have heather and the occasional indigenous Scots pine. There is extensive marshy ground on the SE side of the area that was formerly a dammed body of water.
This east most settlement comprises a farmstead building range (112), a smaller building (115) enclosures (111 & 113), and a pond and dam (114).
Further details of these and other associated sites can be found in the Strathconon Phase 1 Report (pages 44 & 45) produced by the North of Scotland Archaeology Society and appended to this record.
