Bighouse
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bighouse
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6900
Site Number NC86SE 16
NGR NC 898 641
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC86SE 16 898 641.
(NC 8977 6340) A group of five cairns with an outlier at NC 8986 6338 and a circular enclosure, 5m in diameter, at NC 8983 6341.
R J Mercer 1980.
No trace of the cairns or the enclosure in the area indicated. This may be a reference to the settlement and field system 150m to the east (NC86SE 6).
Visited by OS (N K B) 22 December 1980.
A longhouse with associated enclosures at least one of which may also be a house, one circular grass-covered clearance cairn, 2m in diameter, and a 40m stretch of grass-covered field wall.
R J Mercer 1980.
A farmstead comprising one roofed building and an enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xi). Two unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition OS 1:10,560 map (1964).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 15 August 1995.
