Monument record MHG23005 - Building - Doirevaire /Gleann Fhoidhaig

Summary

Building - Doirevaire /Gleann Fhoidhaig

Location

Grid reference Centred NH 1652 4853 (9m by 7m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH14NE
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Old County ROSS-SHIRE
Civil Parish CONTIN

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

NH14NE 4 165 485

An unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet xcv), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1970).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 4 March 1996

A colour print photgraph of this structure was taken by J Duberley and is held in Assoc. Docs.
(KC - 05/2003)

Building - (Site 596) NH 16523 48521 (Nmrs No NH14NE 0005)The stone wall footings of a rectangular building lie on an E-W axis 200m to the east of the main building at Doirevaire and was recorded by NOSAS in 2007 as part of the Scotland's Rural Past Project. There is a ditch to the rear/north of the building and it is recessed into the slope at the west end where the wall is 0.5m in height. The internal dimensions of the building are 7m x 2.5m and the walls comprise a single course of boulders, which in the south wall average c0.8m diameter but in the north wall are just 0.2-0.3m in height. There is an entrance 0.8m in width in the south wall. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2009 APs <2>

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Marshall, M. 2009. Report of Phase Two Scardroy and Upper Strathconon: May 2007 - December 2007. North of Scotland Archaeological Society. Digital. P.32 Site 596.
  • <2>XY Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph/Vertical: Get Mapping. 2009. Getmapping aerial photography 2009. [Mapped features: #14353 Site 596 Building, ; #105551 Site 596 Building, ]

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Record last edited

Oct 27 2017 11:58AM

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