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MHG17935 - Farmstead - Freisgill

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The farmstead is shown as containing one roofed and two unroofed buildings on the current OS 1:10,560 map (1961).

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A farmstead comprising one roofed building, one unroofed building and five enclosures or fields, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet vi). The farmstead is shown as containing one roofed and two unroofed buildings on the current OS 1:10,560 map (1961).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 9 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.

This site, set on a flat area below crags and above the coast looking west, is described in the NMRS from cartographic sources. This site requires survey to ascertain what remains are extant from those depicted on the map and what un-mapped elements are present. The place-name, and its likely Scandinavian derivation, is discussed by Ian Fraser ( in Crawford (ed) 1995, 96) and Doreen Waugh (in Baldwin (ed) forthcoming): the implication for survey is for a careful examination for any potential Norse or Medieval features. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 4896 6574 (493m by 397m)
Map sheet	NC46NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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