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MHG11487 - Long house - Lochan Clachaidh

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An unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map.

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NC 441 622. Longhouse 15m by 5m with an enclosure 15m by 10m.
T C Welsh 1972ad.

NC 4419 6229. Also lazy-bed cultivation; 18th-19th century date.
Visited by OS (JM) 17 April 1980.

An unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xv). The building is shown as unroofed on the current edition OS 1:10,560 map (1961).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 15 August 1995.

A rapid coastal zone assessment survey was conducted by GUARD in the Autumn of 1997 commissioned by Historic Scotland from the Viking and Early Settlement Archaeological Research Project based at the University of Glasgow.

Very fragmentary remains of a building as described in the NMRS after site visits by T C Welsh (1972) and OS (JM) in 1980. The site has largely been reduced to a pile of rubble with only a 4 m square section of the walling at the north and the SW corner surviving. The area is heavily overgrown. The enclosure noted in the NMRS *has been cut by a modern track, the construction of which has destroyed much of this site. No sign of associated cultivation was noted (contra OS), but peat-cuttings exist to the ENE.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 4414 6229 (30m by 30m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC46SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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