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Skelpick Lodge

Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Skelpick Lodge

Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Dalveghouse

Canmore ID 6244

Site Number NC75NW 40

NGR NC 717 557

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NC75NW 40 717 557.

(NC 717 557) Dalveghouse (OS 6"map, Sutherland, 1st ed., 1873). The remains of a depopulated settlement, mentioned as Dalvigaibe (Macfarlane 1906-8) in 1726, which since it was under sheep in 1873 (ONB 1873) is presumably one of those abandoned during the clearance of Strathnaver between 1814 and 1819.

Name Book 1873; W Macfarlane 1906-8; J Prebble 1963.

Dalveghouse (name unverified) comprises the footings of about three longhouses, the largest 28.0m by 4.0m along with associated enclosures. Rig and furrow cultivation is visible north of the structures.

Visited by OS (J B) 18 December 1978.

This township comprising four unroofed long buildings, three other unroofed buildings and three enclosures, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xxvii). Six unroofed buildings and two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1964).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 21 August 1995.

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