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MHG19071 - Farmstead - Dun-Garbh-Airigh

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NH69NW 27 637 990

A farmstead comprising one roofed and one unroofed building, and two areas of cultivation are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet ciii). An unroofed building is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1970).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 November 1995

DBAs and walkover surveys were carried out by CFA Archaeology Ltd in November 2002 and April 2003 in advance of a proposed wind farm development at Cambusmore Estate, near Bonar Bridge, Sutherland.

The NMRS (ref NH69NW 27) records a farmstead comprising one roofed and one unroofed building and two areas of cultivation depicted on the 1st Edition OS map. Field survey located the remains of a three compartment building 17m long WNW-ESE by 5m wide in an area of improved ground. (This appears to be the roofed building mentioned, the unroofed building was not located by the survey.) The main, central, compartment is 9m long WNW-ESE with no obvious entrance. There are traces of what may be a partition wall 3m from the ESE end of the main compartment and it is likely that any entrance is in the SSW facing aspect. A compartment 5m square is attached to the ESE end of the main compartment with a central doorway in its SSW aspect. At the opposite end of the building is a narrow (2m wide) outbuilding. 4m to the SSW is what appears to be a revetted terrace along the front aspect of the building. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6369 9899 (188m by 232m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH69NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CREICH

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