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MHG11695 - Achvaich Burn

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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

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Grid reference	Centred NH 7074 9604 (200m by 200m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH79NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DORNOCH

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