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Elrig

Building (Post Medieval)

Site Name Elrig

Classification Building (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 78779

Site Number NH62NW 56

NGR NH 6451 2760

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

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Field Visit (3 March 1993)

NH62NW 56 6451 2760

In rough ground on the W bank of the River Nairn, 550m SSW of Elrig farmhouse, there is a building with a rectangular yard to the NE. It measures 6.5m NE-SW by 3.45m transversely within walls 0.7m

thick. The entrance is in the SE side and there are two outshots attached to the NE end.

This building is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874, sheet xxxi), and again on the 2nd edition (1905).

(USN93 80)

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 3 March 1993.

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