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Scalpaidh

Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Structure(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Scalpaidh

Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Structure(S) (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Balmacara Estate

Canmore ID 108694

Site Number NG72NE 40

NGR NG 7777 2789

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Lochalsh
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NG72NE 40 777 279

What may be an unroofed shieling-hut is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1880, sheet cxxii), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 7 May 1996

Activities

Field Visit (May 1996 - June 1996)

In a small clearing amongst open birch woodland, at the foot of the east flank of Cam na Snaobhaig are the degraded ruins of a small farmstead consisting of the following:-

A small bothy measuring 5.0m south-west to north-east by 3.5m north-west to south-east over tumbled stone walls 0.8m thick. A 1.0m wide door opening lies in the centre of the south-east wall. Attached to the north-west side of the bothy is a small, very ruinous enclosure of triangular shape. The bothy lies in the south-west corner of a subrectangular

boulder enclosure which measures roughly 30.0m square. Within the

enclosure are numerous small clearance cairns. To the north of the enclosure, immediately at the foot of the slope, and just below the tree line are the remains of at least 5 single cell structures measuring 2.0m in diameter over walls 0.5m thick. At least one of these cells is square in plan.

A very degraded site which will be impossible to fmd once the bracken grows.

(BAL96 053)

Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016

Field Visit (1996)

NG 780 300 (centre) In the springs of 1995 and 1996 a field survey was carried out on the NTS Balmacara Estate. The estate covers approximately 22.5 sqkm of the Lochalsh peninsula. It lies largely within the points of a triangle formed by Kyle in the SW, Plockton in the N and Balmacara in the SE. The range of topographic variation found within the estate largely reflects that found on the W coast of Scotland generally. The range of sites found during the survey reflects this topographic variation.

During two seasons of survey 109 new sites were recorded. A full report is lodged with the NMRS.

1996

NG 7777 2789 Farmstead: bothy 5x3.5m with pen attached to NW side within 0.5ha dyked enclosure. Just outwith the enclosure, on N side, are five 2m diameter cell structures.

Sponsors: National Trust for Scotland, Historic Scotland

M Wildgoose 1996

Condition Survey (1998 - 1998)

This site is as described by Dualchas

It consists of a ruinous building and an attached small yard within an enclosure that has numerous clearance cairns across it. Just north of the enclosure are at least 5 small structures, possibly lambing pens.

NTS ref: BAL 060 (Information from condition report for NTS produced by Jill Harden 2000)

NTS commissioned condition survey undertaken by Jill Harden as follow-up to Dualchas survey

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