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Suisnish
Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Suisnish
Classification Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 282721
Site Number NG53NE 201
NGR NG 5538 3507
NGR Description 5538 3507 (centre)
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG53NE 201 NG 5538 3507
A survey of the townships of Suisnish and South Fearns was carried out by ACFA in April 2005 as part of a continuing programme of recording the physical remains of human activity on the island of Raasay (DES 2004, 78-9).
Township of Suisnish. The remains of the cleared township of Suisnish lie to the S and E of the village of Inverarish. It was cleared between 1841-51 to make way for a large sheep farm. The remains consist of some 48 structures comprising houses, barns/ byres and a large stone-built enclosure. In addition to these 19th century structures there is a souterrain, a hut circle and a small cairn or mound of indeterminate period and function. The township is
surrounded by an extensive field system comprising field banks and remains of rig.
Full report lodged with NMRS.
Sponsors: Glasgow Archaelogical Society, CBA Challenge Funding.
J MacDonald and J Scott Wood 2005
Archaeological Evaluation
NG 553 351 An evaluation prior to development of a new house revealed that of four structures (24–27) recorded during a survey in 2005 (ACFA Occasional Reports No. 80), only two survived, and these only partially. Structure 24 in the survey had been cut through by a new access road, as had structure 25. Structures 26 and 27 had been totally destroyed by the hardstanding for an agricultural shed. Research and trial excavation of the surviving structures revealed that structures 24 and 25 were both enclosures and that they had fallen out of use around 1851 at the time of the clearance of Suisnish Township. Both structures had then been quarried for stone during the construction of a nearby gathering park.
Archive currently retained by Archaeological and Ancient Landscape Survey. Reports lodged with RCAHMS and Highland Council.
Funder: Mrs Diane Henderson.
