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MHG12725 - Storehouses - Port Vasgo

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A number of structures described in the NMRS as storehouses.

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Port Vasgo. A rift, possibly artifically widened and straightened, in the rocky shore, with a crab winch for hauling boats. Nearby are some single-storey storehouses.
J R Hume 1977.

At the south of the bay at Port Vasgo are a number of structures described in the NMRS as storehouses. The building at the north, 11 m from a revetment standing to nine courses at the water's edge, measures 11 in E-W by 5 m. This building is dry-stone constructed and has a heavily corroded, corrugated-iron roof. There is an extension at the east of this building which measures 6 m E-W by 4.5 m and which has partially tumbled. This has an extension to the north, represented only by a tumbled fragment of walling 5 m long. An enclosing wail skirts the south side of the main building, and south of this is another structure. This building is immediately north of a roadway and measures 8 m E-W by 5 m. It appears to be dry-stone built but has mortar visible in the interior and, although the walling survives to its original height, it no longer has a roof. There is an entrance in the south wall and the north side of the road has been revetted (surviving up to 14 courses) with steps built in to lead down from the level of that road to the building.

At the south side of the road there is a ruinous building measuring 6 m E-W by 4 m which has a small extension on the east side that only partially survives. This structure also appears to be dry-stone built on the outside, but has mortar visible on the inside. To the west of this there is the concrete-and-stone foundation of a building that is bi-compartmental and measures 11 m E-W by 5 in. This only has the south wall standing (2.5 m high). Immediately west of this is a modern inhabited dwelling which marks the north edge of the current settlement of Port Vasgo. It is unclear whether the buildings described above were all storehouses (and thus NMRS No NC 56 NE 1) or if, as seems likely, at least one of them was a dwelling and therefore part of the village proper (and thus NMRS No NC 56 SE 26). The rest of the village of Port Vasgo consists of a mixture of inhabited modern houses, renovated older ones and ruinous buildings located outwith the area of this survey. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2020 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 5844 6498 (57m by 86m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC56SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	TONGUE

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