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Lower Ryefield
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lower Ryefield
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Alcaig
Canmore ID 317421
Site Number NH55NE 193
NGR NH 56922 56862
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/317421
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Logie Wester
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (February 2009 - May 2010)
Farmstead and enclosure at NH 56922 56862
This site is situated in scrubby ground 400m to the SE of the small village of Alcaig close to a minor road. It has a NW aspect and is within dense scrubby bushes and grazed by cattle. The site is marked on the 1st Edition OS survey as being roofed and has a small enclosure to the SE but there was no evidence of this enclosure. The site has not previously been recorded
The site comprises the low footings of a single building on a NE-SW alignment. The building is on a slightly raised platform and has an internal measurement of 10m x 4m. The SE wall footings have not survived but the remains of the other walls are of intermittent stones set in a low turf bank which is 0.3 to 0.5m thick and just 0.2m high.
