Monument record MHG11889 - Easter Turnaig

GR corrected to above from 1st ed OS where there are 2 enclsures along bottom of fieldline. May mark the site of Easter Turnaig that is named but has no buildings marked. Modern mapping shows buildings at 240278900162 immed N of the shore
Needs Checking - HAW 2/2003


NC40SW 11 401 002
NC 398 003 Loch Thurnaig. A depopulated site of approximately six acres, two-thirds of which is strip cultivation. The house sites vary from 10ft to 30ft square, grouped, on raised banks, about two streets which converge into a square. There is a ditch surrounding them, possibly in case of river flooding.
T C Welsh 1968.

Welsh seems to have amalgamated the two depopulated sites of Wester and Easter Turnaig in his description. At Wester Turnaig (NC30SE 2) are two houses with outbuildings and steadings, and a large area of strip cultivation. At Easter Turnaig (NC 401 002) is a larger group of apparently older houses and enclosures, some square. Neither site is surrounded by a ditch, though they both occur on old river terraces with drainage ditches in their vicinity.
Visited by OS (AA) 22 August 1974.