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Ledbeg
Field System (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Wall (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ledbeg
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Wall (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 89589
Site Number NC21SW 20
NGR NC 24647 13486
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/89589
- Council Highland
- Parish Assynt
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC21SW 20 2466 1344
NC 2466 1344: Mound, grass-covered, 50m in diameter surrounded by wall; associated with a rectangular enclosure. A grass-covered curving wall 30 x 50m by 0.3m high(NC 2496 1336).
R Mercer, Ledmore Survey nos.8, 15 1978.
Abandoned early modern land use.
Visited by OS (NKB) 1 September 1980
What may be a field-system comprising two incomplete, conjoined enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet lxxxii). Some lengths of wall are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1967).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 19 September 1995
Field Visit (27 November 2009)
The remains of a field system comprising a turf bank which surrounds the north, south and east sides of a grassy knoll. The bank is aligned N-S and stands up to 0.3m high with no discernible entrance.
(HLP_no 26)
Assynt's Hidden Lives Project 2009
