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Creagandamph
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Creagandamph
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Creagandamph
Canmore ID 6043
Site Number NC71NW 15
NGR NC 730 172
NGR Description centred on NC 730 172
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6043
- Council Highland
- Parish Clyne
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC71NW 15 centred on 730 172.
Crofting settlement abandoned in the 18th/19th Century. Remains include half a dozen or so building footings, including a long-house, several ruinous enclosures, a corn-drying kiln, and the course of a head dyke or bank. Ruins of a later shepherd's house are at NC 7293 1745.
Visited by OS 14 May 1981.
A township comprising two roofed and three unroofed buildings, three enclosures, a field and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet lxxxvii). Thirteen unroofed buildings, three enclosures, a field and a ring-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 16 October 1995
