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Skye, Scorybreck
Field System(S) (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Scorybreck
Classification Field System(S) (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 11273
Site Number NG44NE 5
NGR NG 498 450
NGR Description centred on NG 498 450
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11273
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG44NE 5 centred on 498 450
(NG 497 450) Scorybreck: shown as township in 1824 (W Johnson's Map of Skye, 1824) but deserted by 1877 and described as Scorybreck (in ruins) (OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, Island of Skye, 1st ed.).
The populous district of Scorybreck was cleared from end to end (probably for sheep-farming).
A Nicolson 1930
NG 498 450. A depopulated township of about 8 ruined houses, some outbuildings and yards. Upon the fallen walls of one house, stands a white tablet inscribed:
"Site of Scorybreck Home of the Nicholson Chiefs for Eight Centuries till 1825".
Visited by OS (A S P) 26 April 1961
Seven unroofed buildings, one of which is a long L-shaped building, five of which are long buildings, two enclosures, two field-systems (NG 450 449 and NG 496 447) and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xxiv). Three roofed, nine unroofed buildings, some field walls, two field-systems (NG 450 449 and NG 492 463) and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 17 October 1996
