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Achupresh
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Achupresh
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dalvina Lodge
Canmore ID 73029
Site Number NC64SE 58
NGR NC 699 434
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73029
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC64SE 58 699 434.
Achupresh, shown on B Meredith's Plan of the Heights of Strathnaver, 1811, was one of the outlying enclosures of Rosal (NC64SE 12). There is evidence to show that such enclosures result from land reclamation which was taking place at the time of the Clearances, 1814-20. The ruinous enclosure dyke, substantially built of stone and turf, has contained six acres, with one full size long-house and possibly a second, together with a barn, a corn-drying kiln, a yard and at least one other outhouse. It is estimated to have been permanently occupied by two families. The enclosure is complex, as though it had been increased by successive intakes from the moor on two or three occasions.
H Fairhurst 1969a.
As described by Fairhurst.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 December 1978.
Scheduled with NC64SE 40, NC64SE 59, NC64SE 63 NC74SW 4.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 11 February 1993.
This township comprises five unroofed buildings, an enclosure and a ring-dyke as depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland, sheet xlv). Five unroofed buildings and the ring-dyke are shown on the current editions of the OS 1:10,000 map (1992) and (1986).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 9 October 1995.
