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MHG66267 - Drainage channel - Airdtorrisdale

Summary

A drainage-channel cut through the turf and leading downslope to the cliff-edge.

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This township comprises forty-three roofed buildings and eight unroofed structures as it is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xvii). Twenty-four unroofed buildings, two roofed buildings, and five unroofed structures are depicted on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1964).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 15 August 1995

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 a steep, grassed slope at the west of the bay is a drainage-channel cut through the turf and leading downslope to the cliff-edge. This feature is partly overgrown with bracken, and measures 1.2-1.5 m wide and up to 0.7 m deep. As it still carries moving water, it may have been cut to canalise a burn upstream. To be surveyed as part of the township. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2020 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 6801 6220 (70m by 61m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC66SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	TONGUE

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