Monument record MHG14512 - Carnachuin

Visited Saturday 19th July 2003. Weather - dull and windy. The site lies on a raised moraine on the west side of the River Feshie. A farmstead of 3 roofed buildings, 1 unroofed building and 4 enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition OS survey. The settlement is marked on the Thomson map of 1830 but not on the Roy survey of 1750. Today the site has been developed, with previous buildings being reconstructed and modern structures and sheds erected, a large fenced enclosure lies to the west. The line of the former road exists as a track taking a slightly lower route. Two enclosures and the remains of a single structure/?shieling adjacent to the track are all that remains of the former ?farmstead. A monument is to be found on top of a knoll to the SW of the farmstead. It has the inscription “Highland Fieldcraft Training Centre - 1943-1945 - In memory of those who gave their lives for their country and who trained in this glen and at Gairloch, Ross-shire”.

Structure - Rectangular and on a NW-SE axis this measures roughly 6m x 2.5m. Well defined turf walls to 0.3m height and 1.2m in width with rounded corners. A manhole cover situated internally may indicate the existence of a tank.

Enclosure - Small enclosure roughly 12m x 10m lies adjacent and on the west side of the old track. A niche of diameter 1.5m is in the SE corner

Enclosure - Adjacent and to the south of the previous enclosure, this measures 22m x 12m and is defined by an earth bank which drops abruptly to the old track on its east side.
Recorded by M. Marshall July 2003


NN89SW 4 8463 9393
A farmstead, comprising three roofed buildings, one unroofed building, four enclosures and a field is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1872, sheet ciii). Five roofed, two unroofed buildings, two enclosures and two fields are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 22 July 1996.