Monument record MHG11143 - Creagandamph

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 7300 1720 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC71NW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish CLYNE

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Full Description

Situated on a S facing moderate hillslope at altitude 168=183m OD in enclosed pasture.
Information added by A M Fox, Highland Council Archaeology Unit, 17.04.00.

NC71NW 15 centred on 730 172.

Crofting settlement abandoned in the 18th/19th Century. Remains include half a dozen or so building footings, including a long-house, several ruinous enclosures, a corn-drying kiln, and the course of a head dyke or bank. Ruins of a later shepherd's house are at NC 7293 1745.
Visited by OS 14 May 1981.

A township comprising two roofed and three unroofed buildings, three enclosures, a field and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet lxxxvii). Thirteen unroofed buildings, three enclosures, a field and a ring-dyke 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

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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