MHG26708 - Saw pit/Store - Lyne
Summary
Ruined saw pit/storehouse at Lyne
Type and Period (3)
- STILL? (Post Medieval - 1560 AD? to 1900 AD?)
- STOREHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1560 AD? to 1900 AD?)
- SAW PIT (Post Medieval - 1560 AD? to 1900 AD?)
Protected Status
- None recorded
Full Description
The Inverness Field Club, led by Donald Coghill, surveyed a number of sites in the Aird area between 1987 and 1989. Lyne.
An elongated sunken area 16 yards x 8 yards dug into and running up the steep hillside. It is now bowl-shaped, the centre being 5 feet below the level of the rim. It had a caber-type roof and was constructed as a store for barley which may not have been unconnected with the illicit distillation of whisky in this immediate area during the second half of the last century.
I have discovered since that this site was originally a saw-pit known in Gaelic as 'glaic na h-athainn'. This site is a first-class example of the cost-effectiveness in the re-use of sites practiced through the ages which makes sites that are more complicated than this so very difficult to de-code. <1>
1st Edition OS 6" <2>
NGR adjusted based on 1999-2001 aerial photographs. <3>
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SHG2356 Text/Manuscript: Jacks, S E (ed.). 1989. Some unrecorded sites in the Aird noted between Oct 1987 & May 1989. Inverness Field Club. Digital. no. 104 (and Appendix 2). XY
- <2> SHG23411 Image/Map: Ordnance Survey. 1881. Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map: Ross-shire. Digital.
- <3> SHG27491 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph/Vertical: Get Mapping. 1999-2001. Get Mapping colour vertical aerial photography 1999-2001 (The Millennium Map).
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 5519 4255 (20m by 20m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH54SE |
| Civil Parish | KILTARLITY AND CONVINTH |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
Finds (0)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Investigations/Events (0)
External Links (1)
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/116715 (View HER Canmore entry for this site)
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