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MHG63626 - Buildings - Loch Buidhe

Summary

The possible remains of one or more buildings at Loch Buidhe.

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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.

Site 23: 40m to the northwest of monument 20 (MHG63624) and abutting a natural, steep rocky crag is a field system comprising a group of 3 conjoined enclosures, the westernmost of which contains an oval building with rounded ends. The enclosure walls are constructed using large and medium sized boulders in-filling gaps between very large, natural, earth-fast boulders. The walls are in variable states of preservation and only in the westernmost enclosure is there a clear entrance. In some places the walls are almost completely dilapidated, in particular in the SE enclosure where a large section of the south wall is absent, while in other parts they are fairly well preserved. The walls exist in places up to 1m high and are generally c.lm wide. A tail wall runs eastward from the SE corner of the SE enclosure for approximately 30¬40m, terminating in open ground c.20m to the north of monument 20. The building occupying the westernmost enclosure is situated in the western half of the enclosure behind a curving, well preserved section of wall where an entrance to the enclosure is clearly visible. The building is 6m E-W by 3m N-S with drystone walls up to lm high constructed using edge-set stones. An entrance is visible in the centre of the south-facing wall. The interior areas of the enclosures are extensively rubble strewn and the building interior is heavily overgrown with bracken, A stone clearance cairn lies in open ground c.30m south of the westernmost enclosure. The site does not appear on early OS map coverage and was therefore abandoned prior to the time of the survey in 1872. <1>

Note: Site not visible on aerial photographs so location based on grid coordinates. (TB 13/11/24)

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Location

Grid reference	Centred NH 6660 9860 (79m by 79m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH69NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DORNOCH

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