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Apigill

Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Apigill

Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Apagill

Canmore ID 73997

Site Number NC75NW 89

NGR NC 710 574

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Farr
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC75NW 89 710 574

Apigill: the ruins of a croft (Name Book compiled 1873).

Name Book (Sutherland).

The turf-covered footings of two long-houses the larger being 53m by 4m with the walls averaging 0.3m high. Associated enclosures in a similar condition occur nearby along with a corn-drying kiln. There are faint traces of contemporary run-rig.

Visited by OS (JB) 30 November 1978.

A farmstead, comprising one unroofed building and an enclosure, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xviii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1964).

Information from RCAHMS (FO) 17 August 1995.

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