EHG3840 - DBA and walkover survey - Culachy Estate Woodland Planting Scheme

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West Coast Archaeological Services

Date

Mar 2013

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Site 20-34 - View over the settlement of Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63550 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 21b - View from inside house/kennels showing collapsed gable-end, fireplace and recessed cupboards to each side © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63549 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 21b - Detail showing window and dressed stone surround © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63548 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 21b - Views showing house/kennels and lean-to tin structure © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63547 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 21b - Stone-built house at Knollbuck - later turned into kennels © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63546 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 20 - Stone-built byre is part of farmstead at Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63545 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 2- - Stone-built byre is part of farmstead at Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63544 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 20-34 - View over the settlement of Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63543 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 34 - View NNE over the house showing clearance heaped onto the structure, from later agricultural developments at Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63542 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 34 - Image showing the very degraded remains of a tone-built house in the setlement of Knollbuck - possibly the original house in the settlement © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63541 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 31 - Image of the consumption dykes forming terraces in the enclosure at Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63540 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 27 - The major stone and turf dyke enclosing the settlement at Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63539 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 20-34 - View over the settlement of Knollbuck © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63538 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 13 - One of two well-built clearance cairns with remaining kerb showing, within larger cluster of cairns © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63537 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 10 - Stone clearance cairns near summit of Creagan a Chnoic © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63536 (click to view a larger version of this image)

General shot looking to Loch Ness and Fort Augustus from Creagan a Chnoic © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63535 (click to view a larger version of this image)

General shot from Creagan a Chnoic over survey area © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63534 (click to view a larger version of this image)

General shot from Creagan a Chnoic to Wade's Military Road © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63533 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 6 - Turf and stone boundary dyke © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63532 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 4 - Stone clearance cairn © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63531 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 18 - Turf and stone-built oval shieling © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63530 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - General shot of site 16 showing sluice-gate housing and mechanism, overflow ramp and the tiered back face of the dam © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63529 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - Image showing breach through dam showing stone and timber revettments and sluice-gate housing © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63528 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 3 - Stone clearance cairn © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63527 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - View down the overgrown overflow channel, which has been cut into the hillside © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63526 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - Image showing stone overflow ramp at top of dam. Concrete surface survives below the grass © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63525 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - Stone-built overflow ramp on SE side of dam © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63524 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - Image showing sluice-gate housing and beach in dam, exposing stone and timber revetting © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63523 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - Suice-gate housing and surviving iron mechanism © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63522 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - View along top of stone and turf dam showing sluice-gate housing and iron mechanism to the right and continuation of dam beyong breach to overflow © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63521 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 16 - Stone-revetted NE face of the dam, with the stream cut/breach to the left in the image © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63520 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 15 - Iron, flanged pipe to the N of dam site 16, forms a part of the now abandoned hydro system to Culachy House © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63519 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 15 - Iron pipe (displaced) connecting two sections of ceramic pipe forming part of hydro system © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63518 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 15 - Inspection chamber and hydro-pipe built into stone laid, to the N of dam site 16 © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63517 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Site 1 - Sheiling mound © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 63516 (click to view a larger version of this image)

Documents (1)

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SHG25914_Culachy_2013.pdf — Fieldwork report © West Coast Archaeological Services. id: 120052 (click to open this file in a new window)

Description

An archaeological desk-based assessment and walkover survey was carried out by West Coast Archaeological Services in March 2013 on behalf of Bidwells and Culachy Estate, Fort Augustus in advance of a woodland establishment scheme. The work was undertaken to assess the nature and extent of any archaeological sites and features likely to be affected within the areas outlined for planting and regeneration and to inform recommendations for the protection and management of any sites located. The survey identified seventeen new and unrecorded archaeological sites including enclosures, turf and stone dykes, clearance cairns, shielings and the remains of a dam and associated hydro scheme relating to the estate; and the previously recorded route of Wade’s Military Road. Mitigation measures were proposed to safeguard the sites during the establishment of the woodland scheme. <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

<1> SHG25914 Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Birch, S.. 2013. Woodland Planting Scheme: Archaeological desk-based assessment and walkover survey: Culachy Estate - Fort Augustus, Highland. West Coast Archaeological Services. Digital.

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Location	Culachy Estate
Grid reference	Centred NH 3658 0526 (1763m by 2409m) (5 map features)
Map sheet	NH30NE
Operational Area	INVERNESS NAIRN BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY
Civil Parish	BOLESKINE AND ABERTARFF
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

Related Monuments/Buildings (17)

MHG56468 Clearance cairns - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56473 Clearance cairns - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56474 Clearance cairns - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56466 Clearance cairns - Knollbuck (Monument)
MHG17520 Corrieyairack Pass, Connachie Burn to Culachy (Monument)
MHG4332 Corrieyairack Pass, General Wade's Military Road (general) (Monument)
MHG56477 Dam overflow, dam sluice and dam - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56469 Dyke - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56470 Dyke - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56479 Dyke - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56472 Enclosure - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56475 Enclosure - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG22966 Farmstead - Knollbuck (Monument)
MHG56476 Lade / pipe run - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56467 Sheiling mounds - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56478 Shieling mound - Culachy Estate (Monument)
MHG56471 Stone cairn - Culachy Estate (Monument)

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Record last edited

Nov 26 2015 10:08AM

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