Doir' A' Bhaird
Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Doir' A' Bhaird
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Innis Bhuidhe
Canmore ID 104966
Site Number NG78SE 1.01
NGR NG 773 803
NGR Description Centred on NG 773 803
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Gairloch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG78SE 1.01 centred on 773 803
Later occupation of the area is indicated by the remains of rectangular stone walled buildings, an enclosure, small fields or paddocks, large stock enclosures and the remains of an enclosing dyke of earth and stone extending from the Allt Mor at NG 7732 8056 to the River Sand at NG 7688 8009. There are four buildings (area NG 7736 8035) varying in size from 6.0m x 3.5m to 9.0m x 4.0m with an average wall height of 0.6m. The enclosure (at NG 7731 8036) measures 12.0m x 5.0m x 0.8m and has a rectangular compartment 6.0m x 3.0m within its NE angle. The fields are enclosed by turf covered stone walls and the stock enclosures by substantial boulder walls. Two of the large stock enclosures and one of the small fields have a small compartment (3m x 2m average size) built against the inside of the enclosing wall.
Two types of stone clearance were noted within the area. Firstly, the usual gathering of the stones into small heaps, now heather-covered, and secondly, on ground thickly covered by stones and rock fragments, small cultivation plots have been created here and there by simply throwing the stones aside.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 11 October 1964.
Additional features discovered in 1990 include:
at NG 7742 8039 and NG 7744 8026 Sub-circular stone walled houses.
and at NG 7718 8026 house platform.
Late medieval, post clearance remains include: enclosure banks, enclosed fields, sheep shelters, lambing pens, rectangular houses. New stretches of field banks were located and adjustments made to the alignment and amount of enclosure as published on the 1:10560 OS map.
Sponsor: Glenfiddich Living Scotland Award, per Gairloch Heritage Trust. L J Masters 1990.
A township comprising two unroofed buildings, a field-system and a short length of head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet xliv). Nine unroofed buildings, two unroofed structures, two field-systems, three enclosures and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968) as well as some hut-circles which lie within the township (see NG78SE 1.03).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 19 April 1996.
