Monument record MHG28267 - Badachrasgaidh

NC70SW 116 7411 0290

The farmstead of Badachrasgaidh, comprising a single building and a large field, is situated on the extreme upper-reaches of the Allt Bad a? Chrasgaidh.
The building measures 9.3m from WNW to ESE by 3.6m transversely within faced-rubble walls, 0.7m thick and up to 1m high. There is an entrance on the SSW and, on the W, an outshot, which measures 6.4m in length by 3.3m in breadth. A midden heap lies opposite the entrance. The field, which contains the farmstead-building, is enclosed within an earthen dyke and measures about 200m from NW to SE by 100m transversely.
The farmstead-building is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, but is unroofed, except for a small extension on the E end, on the 2nd edition (Sutherlandshire 1879 and 1907, sheet civ). It is not clear whether this farmstead formed part of the former township of Badchrasky documented in the Sutherland Estate rentals of the late-18th and early-19th centuries (see NC70SW 104.01)
(ROG95 442)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 22 March 1995