Achairn Cottage

ND 298 498: The NMRS notes that a farmstead comprising one unroofed building, three roofed buildings, an enclosure and a length of wall appears on the 1st Edition of the OS 6-inch map. Field survey found the Achairn cottage complex to consist of three roofed and inhabited/in use buildings surrounded by a wire fence. Situated 12m from the south-east corner of

the modern fence lay a collapsed dyke consisting of an overgrown spread

of large stones, 0.2m high and 22m in length. The collapsed dyke runs

north-south and is parallel to a shallow ditch to the west and a modern

filed boundary to the east. Three largely overgrown probable clearance

cairns, all measuring 3m in diameter, are situated to the south of Achairn

cottage. Another cairn is located next to the trackway leading to the

cottage, measuring 4m in diameter and 0.4m in height. It is less

overgrown than the other cairns and so is likely to be of less antiquity.

Information from Stuart Mitchell (CFA Archaeology Ltd) July 2010. OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-79560 (No.63).

A farmstead comprising one unroofed building, three roofed buildings, two of which are long buildings, an enclosure and a length of wall is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxiv). Two roofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1994)

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 19 January 1996