Monument record MHG25256 - Ristocky

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User: Admin, Date: Fri 10 Mar 2000
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A farmstead, comprising an unroofed building and an enclosure, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet lxxxviii). One unroofed building and two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 October 1995.


Building remains. W corner of the northernmost of the two rectangular structures, which formerly comprised the small township buildings at Ristocky. Its N gable end is 6m below and to the SE of the existing access track. Its footings of turf, with occasional visible boulders, survive to 0.4m high and 0.8m wide, and measure 21m x 3m, with an entrance 10m down from the W corner on the SW side.

The sidewalls trend 157 degrees down the bracken and heather-covered slope to the more substantial remains of the lower gable end. The upper NW gable end is 1.5m thick and the upper 6m of the building has been constructed on a 12 degree SE-dipping slope. The slope for the central 9m of the building is only 3 degrees and it is 20 degrees for the lower 6m. A 0.7m wide entrance opens to the WSW, on the most gently sloping part of the SW sidewall remains, 9m downhill from the W corner.