Upper Suisgill
Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Upper Suisgill
Classification Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Enclosure (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 6670
Site Number NC82NE 40
NGR NC 8990 2550
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6670
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Field Visit (31 May 1961)
NC82NE 40 8990 2550
The turf and stone outline of a possible shieling 6m by 2m by 0.2m high with a small enclosure also 0.2m high attached to its west side. On the east side of the shieling an old bank runs in a northerly direction to form a larger enclosure, having the Suisgill Burn as its west boundary.
Visited by OS 31 May 1961.
Field Visit (6 April 1991)
A building measuring 6m from N to S by 2.8m transversely within a stone-faced rubble bank 1m in thickness and 0.4m in height, is situated to the SE of a sheepfold on the N bank of the Gold Burn. Its N end has been reduced and an enclosure is appended to the W side.
An earth-and-stone field bank, depicted on the OS 1:10,560 map (1962), encloses an area to the N.
(KILD91 132)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 6 April 1991.
