MHG43608 - Lazy Beds, Clais Mhor

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  • LAZY BEDS (Undated)

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Full Description

A minor farmstead consisting of a cluster of small buildings of oval and rectilinear form. A more recent sheep pound has been constructed on site, using stone from structures. Around the settlement an area of c4acres in bend of the burn has been improved, some of it bearing rig and furrow and lazy-bed patterns.
R J Mercer 1980.

Six unroofed buildings are depicted on 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xlvii). Seven unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1962).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 9 October 1995.

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 9220 3980 (40m by 40m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NC93NW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish FARR

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