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Port Vasgo, Fishing Station

Fishing Station (Post Medieval), Landing Point (Post Medieval), Storehouse(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Port Vasgo, Fishing Station

Classification Fishing Station (Post Medieval), Landing Point (Post Medieval), Storehouse(S) (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Port-an-fhasgaidh

Canmore ID 5381

Site Number NC56NE 1

NGR NC 58447 65020

NGR Description NC 58447 65020 and NC 58474 65049

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Tongue
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC56NE 1 58447 65020 and 58474 65049

Incoportaes information from cancelled site NC56NE 2 and for village see also NC56SE 26.

Activities

Field Visit (1977)

(Location cited as NC 575 652). Port Vasgo. A rift, possibly artifically widened and straightened, in the rocky shore, with a crab winch for hauling boats. Nearby are some single-storey storehouses.

J R Hume 1977.

Note (9 August 1999)

Note; from examination of photographs it is likely that the 'storehouses' include dwellings.

Information from RCAHMS (SC) 9th August 1999

Field Visit (31 July 2002)

The storehouse (NC 58447 65020) and at least one unroofed cottage, were noted, and the crab winch at the head of the rock-cut rift (NC 58474 65049), was still in situ on the date of of visit. One recent house has been built to the WSW.

At least six roofed buildings are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6 and 25-inch maps (Sutherland 1878, sheet xvi), at Port-an-fhasgaidh, whilst on the current edition of the OS digital 1:2500 scale shows one roofed with several unroofed.

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), 31 July 2002

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