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Braesgill
Sheepfold (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Braesgill
Classification Sheepfold (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Bracaskill
Canmore ID 73063
Site Number NC45NE 24
NGR NC 475 570
NGR Description Centred on NC 475 570
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73063
- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC45NE 24 Centred on 475 570
Group of buildings named Bracaiskill.
W Roy 1747-55.
Braesgill.
OS 6-inch map, 1961.
A minor deserted settlement with head dyke, extending across a main road. It is mainly denoted by rig-and-furrow cultivation and heaps of cleared stones.
There are amorphous ruins of a single, probably contemporary enclosure (see NC45NE 5).
Buildings which existed are presumed to be robbed to build a later walled enclosure and sheepfold.
Visited by OS (NKB) 5 October 1978.
This possible township comprising one enclosure and a sheepfold are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xxiv). The township containing an enclosure and one unroofed building outside the head dyke on the current edition OS 1:10,000 map (1989).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 14 August 1995.
