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Cracknie
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Cracknie
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mcleod's Shieling
Canmore ID 73813
Site Number NC65SE 4
NGR NC 665 508
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73813
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC65SE 4 665 508
Cracknie (NAT)
OS 6-inch map, 1962.
A minor settlement known locally as McLeod's Shieling. There is a footing 28m by 4m at NC 6659 5082 and near it a corn-drying kiln at NC 6660 5087; both are outside, and S of an associated bank enclosing rough ground and tenuous rig and furrow occupied by two small indistinct enclosures and one or two vague, bothy-like footings.
Visited by OS (JM) 15 July 1978.
Scheduled with souterrain NC65SE 1.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 26 April 1993.
A farmstead comprising one long building near an area of cultivation is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xxvi). A two compartment building with one end missing is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1962).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 August 1995.
