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MHG66268 - Revetment - Airdtorrisdale

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Running along most of the north coast of Torrisdale bay is a stone revetment of the hinterland.

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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.

Running along most of the north coast of Torrisdale bay is a stone revetment of the hinterland. At the north end this is represented by tumbled stone 1.8 m wide and 0.45 m high which lies amongst boulders and lumps of eroded turf. At the SW of this area the revetment is four courses of dry-stone built blocks along the edges of the current field-system. The north end of this defensive feature is subject to erosion from the sea and the south part has tumbled in sections.

At the west end of the bay is an area of revetment for the hinterland. This consists of loose blocks of stone dumped below the graveyard-walls to shore up the ground. These blocks give way to a 29 m long stretch of a concrete retaining-wall which runs to the south before being in turn replaced by more loose blocks of stone. The first and last stretches of revetment described stand to 1.5 m high and the concrete wall is 1 m high. <1>

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

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Grid reference	Centred NC 6784 6205 (230m by 88m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC66SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	TONGUE

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