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Creag Loisgte
Pen(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Creag Loisgte
Classification Pen(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Balmacara Estate
Canmore ID 136666
Site Number NG72NE 67
NGR NG 7644 2773
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/136666
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochalsh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (6 June 1996)
NG72NE 67 centred 7645 2777
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 22.5km2 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 7644 2773 Two pens: circular 5m diameter; sub-rectangular 3 x 2m.
NG 7635 2777 Pen 4.5 x 3.2m; inside is a cell 1.4m diameter.
NG 7651 2786 U-shaped pen set against outcrop, 2.5 x 1.5m.
NG 7653 2769 Degraded ?pen
Sponsors: National Trust for Scotland, Historic Scotland
M Wildgoose 1996.
Field Visit (May 1996 - June 1996)
Set against the foot of a west facing outcrop on the east side of a very overgrown come are the tumbled remains of 2 small pens:-
a) The larger pen is circular in plan and measures 5.0m in diameter over walls 0.65m in width constructed of random boulders. No entrance is visible.
b) The smaller pen lies 20.0m to the north-east and is set against the same outcrop where a boundary wall abuts the cliff. It is sub-rectangular in plan and measures 3.0m along the face of the cliff by 2.Om deep. The walls, which are well built, stand 0.7m high and measure 0.45m thick. No entrance is visible.
(BAL96 070)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
Condition Survey (1998 - 1998)
The area requires an intensive search to locate these structures
NTS Ref: BAL 076-077 (information from condition report for NTS produced by Jill Harden 2000)
NTS commissioned condition report as follow-up to Dualchas survey undertaken by Jill Harden
Nts Note (13 January 2016)
Data enhancement work has created individual records for each of the sites listed:
NG 7644 2773 Two pens (NG72NE 67)
NG 7635 2777 Pen (NG72NE 146)
NG 7651 2786 U-shaped pen (NG72NE 147)
NG 7653 2769 Degraded pen (NG72NE 148)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
