Monument record MHG24962 - Multi-period Settlement, Altandhu

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 0216 1151 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC01SW
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Old County ROSS-SHIRE
Civil Parish LOCHBROOM

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

A hut-circle, an enclosure, a burnt mound, a possible building, a patch of rig, some small cairns, two field-banks and a field-system are situated in bracken-covered ground on the E of the public road to Achiltibuie. The site is multi-period displaying both a phase of prehistoric settlement and agriculture and a post-medieval phase, described under NC01SW 8, when it may have been used as shieling-ground and latterly as the site of a small farm, the steading of which lies across the road to the W (NC01SW 8). (ACHIL94 297-9)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 10 August 1994

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Record last edited

Jul 26 2017 11:20AM

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