Monument record MHG11142 - Dalebreck
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NC 7438 1600 (378m by 266m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NC71NW |
Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
Old County | SUTHERLAND |
Civil Parish | CLYNE |
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Full Description
Situated on a SE facing river terrace at the base of a spur at altitude 114m=130m OD in enclosed pasture.
Information added by A M Fox, Highland Council Archaeology Unit, 17.04.00.
NC 742 160 Dalbreck: Foundations varying from 3.0m by 2.0m to 33.0m by 4.0m and up to 0.5m high.
OSFI: EGC:19.7.1961)
NC71NW 14 centred on 742 160.
Crofting settlement abandoned in the 18th/19th century. Remains include 10 or more building footings, including two long-houses, a number of ruinous enclosures, and the course of a head-dyke or bank. There is a shepherds house, partly roofed on the N side.
Visited by OS 14 May 1981.
A township comprising two unroofed buildings, a sheepfold, two enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet lxxxvii). One roofed and eleven unroofed buildings, three enclosures and some field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 16 October 1995
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Record last edited
Nov 4 2016 10:53AM