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Caol Charna
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Caol Charna
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 76300
Site Number NM65NW 10
NGR NM 6252 5808
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76300
- Council Highland
- Parish Morvern
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NM65NW 10 6252 5808
(NM 6252 5807) Remains of a house with another at NM 626 584 (sic: falls in sea). Probably occupied in 1770.
P Gaskell 1968
One unroofed building attached to a field, a sheepfold conjoined with another enclosure and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1875, sheet xl). The sheepfold lies at the NGR given by Gaskell to the remains of a house.
Two conjoined enclosures and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 14 May 1998
Two buildings associated enclosures and cultivation remains, a sheepfold, and a possible kiln all within a head-dyke were recorded during a pre-afforestation survey of Rahoy Estate. The dyke is built of stone for much of its length although the central part is composed of wholly of turf. The dyke appears to separate an area of old pasture, on the W, from an area of cultivatable land near the shore and woodland higher up.
The buildings are situated at NM 6272 5811 and NM 6272 5808. The N building, which is that depicted on the 1st edition of the 6-inch OS map (Argyllshire 1875, sheet xl), measures roughly 10m by 4m and stands up to 1m in height. A large polygonal enclosure, measuring circa 250m by 130m overall, abuts on the W. The second building, lying within a small enclosure to the S, measures 14m by 4m and is 0.3m high. There are traces of rig both within and outwith the small enclosure but none apparent in the larger enclosure. Overlying the SW angle of the larger enclosure, there is a sheepfold which is depicted on both the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (ibid) and on the current edition of the1:10000 OS map (1974). The walls of the sheepfold still stand to their original wall-head, 1.5m in height, and are formed of projecting stones with larger boulders on top. A small enclosure adjoins on the W. It has been partially robbed and for part of its course survives only as a turf-covered stony bank, 0.9m wide and 0.4m high.
A small drystone-walled structure, measuring 2.5m by 1.5m overall, is built against the northern terminal of the dyke. It measures approximately 0.8m in width internally and 0.5m in depth and there appear to be traces of a flue on the E, suggesting that it may be a kiln.
C Lowe and J Wordsworth (Headland Archaeology) 25 May 1999; NMRS MS 899/147, nos.8 and 9
