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MHG26563 - Township - Allt Garbh

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A small settlement comprising several rectangular buildings with enclosure banks.

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A township comprising four unroofed buildings and a length of field wall is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874, sheet lix), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 10 July 1996

A walkover survey was undertaken at Pityoulish Estate by Headland Archaeology in 1999.

Location: Alit Garbh
Class: Buildings and enclosures
Description: A small settlement comprising several rectangular buildings with enclosure banks (Plate 1 Figure 2). It is recorded on the 1875 OS map but at that time only one of the buildings (Site 1g) was shown as roofed. Most of the structures identified are likely to be of post-medieval date.
Site la - A small rectangular, building measuring 5 m x 3 m built into the hillside and standing to 0.7 m. The walls are of stone and up to 0.6 m wide. This structure lies just to the north of the present fence line.
Site lb - The stone footings of a building, 13 m x 5 m, constructed on a small terrace and cut into the hillside. The walls stand to 0.4 m and are approximately 0.6 m wide. This structure lies just to the north of the present fence line.
Site lc - The stone footings of a building, 13 m x 5 m, and cut into the hillside. The walls stand to 0.4 m and are approximately 0.6 m wide. There is a doorway in the southeastern wall. An extension, 8 m x 4 m, of similar build has been constructed on the northeastern end.
Site 1 d - A cut feature 4 m x 10 m and 0.4 m deep to the southwest tapering up to ground level in the northeast. There is a length of stone-revetted bank in the northeastern face. This feature would appear to be associated with building lc and may have been used to aid in the loading of materials from that building onto carts or horseback.
Site le - The stone footings of a building, 10 m x 5 m, with two opposing doorways in the northeastern and southwestern walls. The walls stand to 0.4 m and are approximately 0.6 m wide.
Site 1f - The footings of a small sub-rectangular structure, 5 m x 3 m, and standing to 0.4 m . A considerable amount of clearance stone has been dumped onto this structure and details of any internal structure are obscured.
Site 1g - The stone footings of a rectangular building standing to 1.1 m in places and measuring 6 m x 13 m. There is a partition wall 7.5 m from the southwestern end. It is cut into the slope to the northwest and the bank on top of this continues to the northeast for a distance of approximately 15 m. This is stone-revetted in places.
Site lh - A small sub-circular structure with a possible flue running to the southeast, probably representing the remains of a small corn-drying kiln. This has a bowl approximately 1 m in diameter but it has been filled with clearance stone and the internal structure is obscured.
Site li - A stone dyke up to 1 m wide running along the top of a low natural scarp which is, in places, also revetted.
Site lj - A length of stone dyke, 1.5 m in width and no more than 0.5 m high, running approximately southwest-northeast across the site and forming the limit of flatter improved fields to the southeast.
Site lk - A length of stone dyke, 1 m in width and no more than 0.3 m high, running from the west into an area of bog to the east. This is thought likely to represent a boundary feature, possibly the head dyke associated with the main settlement to the northwest.
Condition: Most of the structures in this group are presently stable consisting of exposed stone with heather and grass cover. Sites 1 a and b, being on the north side of the fence line, are covered in more dense vegetation of heather and small trees. <1>

Site not visible on aerial photographs so location based on 1st Edition OS 6" <2>. (TB 6/2/26)

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Grid reference	Centred NH 9513 1499 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH91SE
Civil Parish	ABERNETHY AND KINCARDINE
Geographical Area	BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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