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MHG7262 - Farmstead/Township - Rhilean Burn 2

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This farm consists of three buildings, an enclosure and the fragmentary remains of a corn-drying kiln, all standing in cleared ground.
OS 6" map, Nairnshire, 1st ed. (1871), sheet xi. RCAHMS 1978, visited 1978. <1>

One roofed, two unroofed buildings, two enclosures and a sheepfold are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Nairnshire 1871-5-6, sheet xi). One unroofed building lying within an enclosure and a length of field wall are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 9 August 1996

The site was visited and recorded during a walkover survey by Highland Archaeology Services in 2009 as part of an environmental assessment for a possible access route to the proposed Tom nan Clach wind farm. Thirty-three structures were identified and recorded, most of which were within three post-medieval rural settlements in the Rhilean Burn valley. Eleven structures were recorded at the Rhilean township in varying states of preservation that suggested multiple periods of occupation. The buildings were mostly small and round-ended with sub-rectangular outshots consisting of low, turf-covered footings. Some remains were very low to the ground, with only the turf-covered stone footings surviving. There was a well preserved, stone-lined corn kiln and attached kiln-barn of turf and stone. The most recent structures were of low, double-faced dry stone construction. There was also clear evidence of two phases of enclosure, of cultivation in the surrounding fields, and of a turf mound with stone footings and ditch enclosure that surrounded most of the site and partially underlay a later enclosure. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 8948 3674 (129m by 238m)
Map sheet	NH83NE
Civil Parish	CAWDOR
Geographical Area	NAIRN

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