Monument record MHG23845 - Port Longaig

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Location

Grid reference Centred NM 7792 9520 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM79NE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish GLENELG
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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Full Description

NM79NE 8 7793 9520

A farmstead, comprising one unroofed building and one enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1876, sheet cvii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 15 August 1996.

NM 779 951 and NM 776 954 Above the N shore of Loch Nevis on a gently sloping area at the foot of a rocky scarp is a drystone-walled sheep fank with a structure along its NE end measuring internally 6.6 x 2.5m, probably originally a free-standing house. There is a stone-walled enclosure, 14m square, 20m to the SE; 50m
R C Callander, 1996d

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Callandar, R C. 1996. 'Port Longaig, Knoydart (Glenelg parish), deserted settlement', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1996, p.64. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 64. 64-65.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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