Torseiller
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Torseiller
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6091
Site Number NC71SE 5
NGR NC 790 103
NGR Description centred on NC 790 103
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6091
- Council Highland
- Parish Clyne
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC71SE 5 centred on 790 103
This site includes the cancelled site,
Kilphedir-more NC71SE 44 NC 787 103 Deserted Settlement; Cultivation Remains
(Centred NC 790 103) Torseiller (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1969)
In this area there are footings and remains up to 0.6m high, of at least fourteen dwellings ranging from 7.0m by 4.0m to 36.0m by 5.0m, together with associated enclosures and the remains of two kilns.
Visited by OS (R D L) 23 April 1964.
A township comprising eleven unroofed buildings, one of which is T-shaped, seven enclosures, some lengths of field wall and part of a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcvii). Fourteen unroofed buildings, nine enclosures, a field, some field walls and part of a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1969).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 1 November 1995
