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MHG24632 - Farmstead - Allt Garbh-Airigh

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NH69NW 29 632 993

A farmstead comprising an unroofed building and an enclosure, and a field and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet ciii). Four roofed buildings, an enclosure, four fields and a haed-dyke are 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 29) records a farmstead comprising an unroofed buiding, enclosure, field and head-dyke depicted on the OS 1st Edition map. Field survey identified a large enclosure defined by a turf and stone bank cut by the modem track. The remains of a small building, 6m long N-S by 4.5m E-W lie at NGR NH 63461 99303. The building is of drystone construction with two possible compartments, the northernmost having a rounded end wall terraced into a low knoll. The walls are up to 0.5m wide. Scattered across the interior of the enclosure are a number of small clearance cairns or stone heaps of varying size from approximately 2m diameter up to 5-6m diameter. The heights also vary from 0.5m to approximately 1m. A further turf and stone field bank, 50m NNE of the northern enclosure bank, is also cut by the present track. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6336 9925 (581m by 571m)
Map sheet	NH69NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CREICH

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