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Ledmacay
Building (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ledmacay
Classification Building (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Raongeodha Hill
Canmore ID 169314
Site Number NJ31SW 130
NGR NJ 3482 1407
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/169314
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strathdon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ31SW 130 3482 1407
This building is situated on a steep, SW-facing wooded slope about 150m NE of Ledmacay farmsteading (NJ31SW 59). Its interior, which has been dug into the slope and is defined on the uphill side by scarps up to 1m high, measures 9m from NW to SE by 4.3m transversely. All that survives of its wall i the SE end of the SW side.
The building is not depicted on either the 1st or the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1869 and 1903, sheet lx), and it was first recognised on RAF vertical aerial photographs (106G/Scot/UK/139 3099-100, flown 3 July 1946).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 28 September 2000.
