Dunviden
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dunviden
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6309
Site Number NC75SW 20
NGR NC 727 518
NGR Description Centred NC 727 518
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6309
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC75SW 20 centred 727 518
(NC 727 518) Dunviden. The remains of a depopulated settlement which since it was under sheep-farming in 1873 (ONB 1873), is presumably one of those abandoned during the clearance of Strathnaver between 1814 and 1819.
Name Book 1873; J Prebble 1963.
Dunviden, a deserted township comprises at least nine building footings, including four "longhouses" ranging in size from 22.0 by 4.0 to 40.0 by 4.0m; the rest vary from 6.0 by 3.0 to 18.0 by 4.0m. There are also enclosures and field banks and, at NC 7272 5176, the remains of a corn-drying kiln. Rig-and-furrow cultivation occurs on the adjacent haugh of the River Naver.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M), 19 July 1977.
This township comprises fourteen unroofed buildings, four of which are long buildings, three enclosures and a large area of cultivation, as depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xxvii).
Seven unroofed buildings and four enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (12962).
Information fron RCAHMS (SAH), 21 August 1995.