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Lothbeg
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lothbeg
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6965
Site Number NC90NW 6
NGR NC 937 097
NGR Description centred on NC 937 097
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6965
- Council Highland
- Parish Loth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC90NW 6 937 097.
(Name: NC 937 097) Lothbeg (NAT)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1909)
Centred: NC 937 097 Lothbeg. A scattered area of depopulation on both sides of the modern road. It comprises small groups of rectangular building ruins with adjoining enclosures and connecting field banks. Visited by OS (W D J) 5 April 1962.
A township comprising three roofed, one partially roofed and fourteen unroofed buildings, some enclosures and field walls and part of a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcviii). Thirty-two unroofed buildings, some enclosures and field walls and part of a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1964).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 25 October 1995
