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Strath Canaird

Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Strath Canaird

Classification Township (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Achamihuoric

Canmore ID 4529

Site Number NC10SE 2

NGR NC 1640 0200

NGR Description Centred NC 1640 0200

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Lochbroom
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NC10SE 2 centred 1640 0200.

(Area centred NC 1640 0200) Achamihuoric - Shown as a settlement of five buildings with arable. (W Roy 1747) Deserted by 1881. (OS 6"map, 1881)

W Roy 1747; OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1881)

The remains of five buildings of good dry stone walling up to 2.0m high and an enclosure bounded by a grassed-over bank, 0.7m high.

Visited by OS (R D L) 10 May 1962.

A township comprising five unroofed buildings in an area of cultivation is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Cromartyshire 1881, sheet viii). Six unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1992).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 September 1995.

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