Monument record MHG11336 - Farm, Ach' an Droighinn

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 2563 2243 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC22SE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish ASSYNT
Old County SUTHERLAND

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Full Description

NC22SE 7 2563 2243.

L-shaped building footing accompanied by ruinous field walls and banks. Abandoned in the 19th century.
Visited by OS (JM) 30 July 1980.

'A piece of pastureā€¦' 'Field of Hawthorn'
Name Book 1878 <1>

Two conjoined fields are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet lxxi). An L-shaped, unroofed building, two similar fields and some other field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 October 1995

Visited by the Assynt's Hidden Lives project in December 2009. Two limestone buildings forming a farmstead along with a field boundary and enclosures visible to the west and south. Structure A is a drystone longhouse 16m x 6m x 1.2m, aligned NNE-SSW, with two compartments and a wall spread of up to 1m in width. Structure B is a drystone L-shaped building 11m x 3m N-S and 6m x 3m E-W up to a height of 1m and a wall spread over 1m in width.Two limestone buildings forming a farmstead along with a field boundary and enclosures visible to the west and south. Structure A is a drystone longhouse 16m x 6m x 1.2m, aligned NNE-SSW, with two compartments and a wall spread of up to 1m in width. Structure B is a drystone L-shaped building 11m x 3m N-S and 6m x 3m E-W up to a height of 1m and a wall spread over 1m in width. <2>

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey.
  • <2> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Cavers, G & Hudson, G. 05/2010. Assynt's Hidden Lives: An archaeological survey of the the parish. AOC Archaeology Group and Historic Assynt. 01/08/2010. Digital. 88A, p.107; p.34.

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Record last edited

Sep 7 2010 12:36PM

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