MHG10319 - Leathad A' Chuailein

Summary

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Type and Period (4)

  • FARMSTEAD (Undated)
  • ENCLOSURE (Undated)
  • FIELD SYSTEM (Undated)
  • KILN (Undated)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

NH69NE 16 659 961.

Noted during pre-afforestation survey.
D Ross 1983.

At Leathad A' Chuailein is a farmstead of four recent rectangular buildings around yard overlying earlier building foundations contemporary with field dyking and to the NW there is a recent bothy and enclosure. To the SE lies a farmstead of three rectangular building foundations, associated field boundary and field clearance heaps: see also NH69NE 17.
Information from D W Ross, S E Finlay and P Ashmore 1983, 3 (see archive, MS/587/1).

A farmstead, comprising one roofed building and two unroofed buildings, and a field-system are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879-81, cviii). Three unroofed buildings and the field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1990).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 22 November 1995.

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Map

Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6587 9611 (434m by 474m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NH69NE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish CREICH

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