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MHG58579 - Building, Inverguseran

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Building, Inverguseran

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Inverguseran
These sites were recorded by NOSAS in 2008/9 as part of an archaeological survey of outer Loch Hourn.

Slisneach is an exceptional area, facing both north onto Loch Hourn and west onto the Sound of Sleat, which lies at the mouth of the loch. Whereas the limit of the loch on its north side is rather vague - though generally accepted locally to be Sandaig (Billy Mackenzie, pers. Comm.) - there is no mistaking its southern limit at Rubha Ard Slisneach. After Culloden, Slisneach was not forfeited, but Inverguseran, the next farm to the south was. Slisneach was occupied at this time as a wadset, held by a son of Macdonnell of Scotus (Munro 1984). Today, Inverguseran is a thriving sheep farm, of which Slisneach forms a small part.

Site 1078. The tumbled footings of a sub-rectangular building, with double faced drystone walls. It measures 7.7m E-W x 3.3m N-S and has an entrance in the centre of the N wall. There is a window in the S wall, 1m in from the SE corner, which measures 0.7m x 0.5m and has a stone sill. The well built walls, which stand to a maximum height of c.1.2m and are at most 0.70m wide, have been pointed externally with a coarse lime mortar. The walls have a slight inward batter internally and may have had a flat stone cope. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 1999-2001 AP’s <2>

1st Edition OS 6" <3>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 7451 0797 (12m by 10m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG70NW
Civil Parish	GLENELG
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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