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Srath Ach' A' Bhathaich
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Srath Ach' A' Bhathaich
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 14819
Site Number NH79NW 31
NGR NH 707 960
NGR Description centred on NH 707 960
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14819
- Council Highland
- Parish Dornoch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH79NW 31 centred on 707 960
Houses, long, rectangular, corn-drying kiln, yard, enclosures, field banks: noted during pre-afforestation survey.
D Ross 1983.
A five-sided enclosure lies 30m to NE.
D W Ross, S E Finlay and P Ashmore 1983, 13 (see archive MS/578/1)
7063 9630 and 7068 9632 (previously recorded as NH79NW 30)
Two enclosures, one D-shaped: noted during pre-afforestation survey.
D Ross 1983.
Two enclosures of uncertain date and purpose.
'A' - NH 7063 9630. D-shaped enclosure on knoll. It measures 10.7m N-S by 8.9m internally within a wall; where double-faced 1.1m wide and 0.9m high. Entrance on SE.
'B' - NH 7068 9632. Remains of an amorphous stone-walled enclosure measuring approximately 8.0m in diameter. On its N side an entrance leads to a sub-rectangular annexe measuring 6.5m by 3.5m internally. An old field dyke lies to the N.
D W Ross, S E Finlay and P Ashmore 1983, 13 (see archive MS/578/1)
At NH 706 960 (previously recorded as NH79NW 37) is a minor deserted settlement comprising the ruins of four buildings and two rectangular enclosures surviving to 0.8m maximum height. Some 60m to the E is a later croft-house, still roofed but unoccupied, and the ruins of three associated outbuildings.
Visited by OS (N K B) 21 October 1980.
A township comprising eight roofed and one unroofed building, five enclosures a short length of head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet cix). One partially roofed and four unroofed buildings, an enclosure and two lengths of field wall are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1976).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 16 November 1995
