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MHG14923 - Farmstead - Camban

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A farmstead, comprising one roofed bothy and up to seven roofless rectangular buildings and enclosures.

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A farmstead, comprising one roofed bothy and up to seven roofless rectangular buildings and enclosures, was recorded during a survey of the West Affric Estate by J Wordsworth for the National Trust for Scotland.
The bothy, at NH 0534 1835, has been restored. It measures 12m by 6m overall and has chimneys built into its gable-ends. It may correspond to the cruck-framed building (NH01SE 1.01) previously noted at Camban. (See MHG16133) A ruined mortared building, measuring 10m by 4m over 0.6m wide walls, lies to the E at NH 0536 1837. There is a 0.9m wide doorway but no evidence for chimneys. Closeby, at NH 0536 1838, there is a heavily robbed drystone structure measuring 7m by 4m overall. To the S below the track, at NH 0536 1835, there is a further rectangular building measuring 10m by 4m over 0.5m thick walls. A 1m wide doorway is centrally placed in the S wall. There is no evidence for chimneys. The foundations of a building, measuring 8m by 5m, lie directly S of this structure whilst what may be a wall of a fifth structure, otherwise heavily overgrown, lies some 30m downhill.
To the E of the burn about 100m E of the main group, there are two further buildings. The W building, at NH 0549 1837, measures 10.5 by 4m overall. A 5m by 2m pen has been added to the E end. Further E again, at NH 05571843, there are the remains of a mortared rectangular building of uncertain length, perhaps up to 8m, by 5m. The 0.9m wide doorway is on the N wall with a further, 0.55m wide and 0.6m high entry and a window on the S wall. This building is associated with a delapidated enclosure. There are traces of further enclosures on both sides of the track. The farm at Cam ban has historically and to the present day has been one of the more favoured areas for settlement in West Affric. The surviving remains mostly belong the late 19th/ early 20th century use of Cam ban and reflect the use of the estate for sheep farming and deer stalking. The possible drystone buildings C), F) & G) may only be different forms of structures contemporary with this rather than the remains of an earlier occupation. <1> <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 0545 1837 (341m by 192m)
Map sheet	NH01NE
Civil Parish	KILMORACK
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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