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MHG65795 - Cultivation terrace - Daill River

Summary

An agricultural complex bounded by a turf and stone dyke.

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A rapid coastal zone assessment survey was conducted by GUARD in the Autumn of 1997 commissioned by Historic Scotland from the Viking and Early Settlement Archaeological Research Project based at the University of Glasgow.

On grassland which slopes down to the burn and beach is an agricultural complex bounded by a turf and stone dyke. The dyke runs WNW from the road for 45 m, bends downslope NNW for 31 m and then turns to run down the rest of the slope to the burn for 29 m. This dyke has had two replacements in the form of a later stone dyke which cuts it at the road side and a modern fence which follows the line of the later dyke. Within the enclosed area are four possible terraces, one of which has a faint trace of a bank at the east and another which has a semi-circular setting of stones. These terraces require more detailed survey to ascertain whether or not hey represent artificial landscaping or were formed by fluvio-glacial action. There are broad cultivation strips in the middle of this field and in the E half which are being destroyed by hillwash. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2023 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 3598 6817 (201m by 80m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC36NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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