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Skye, Heaste

Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Skye, Heaste

Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 84441

Site Number NG61NW 44

NGR NG 649 173

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Sleat
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NG61NW 44 649 173

Ruinous houses (listed, no details given).

ACFA 1993.

A crofting township, comprising forty-eight roofed buildings, one partially roofed building, seven unroofed buildings, one unroofed structure and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet li). Twenty-seven roofed, three partially roofed and twenty-seven unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1988).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 29 November 1996.

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