Monument record MHG28311 - Allt Bad a' Chrasgaidh

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 7411 0298 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC70SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish ROGART

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The target survives as a large mound in front of a substantial stone built structure. Remains of two metal targets lie between the mound and the wall, another lies on the ground. They are marked in squares with a circle for the target area. The remains of a stone built structure is visible at the start of the firing points, this could be an ammunition store. The range could have been used by the Rogart Volunteers. NH 7465 0295.

Information supplied by Annette Jack, 18.10.01
See assoc. docs. File.

J Aitken : 24.10.01
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NC70SW 141 From 7412 0298 to 7467 0298

The remains of a shooting-range can be traced in the flat, boggy ground to the N of the farmstead of Badachrasgaidh (NC70SW 116). On the edge of the boggy ground to the N of the farm building, there are two rectangular platforms providing the base for timber huts. The platform to the WSW measures 5.2m from N to S by 3.6m transversely and stands 0.5m high; that to the ENE 4.6m from E to W by 3.1m transversely and 0.3m in height. The platforms are revetted with walls of stone and the interior packed with earth. Whilst the former has rubble walls, the latter are of dressed stone, providing a flat-plinth in which there are holes 20mm across, of which two still have wooden pegs in them. It is possible that these huts were stores for the shooting range. The targets are marked on the current edition of the OS 1:100000 map (1971) at NC 7467 0298, and are still visible as a substantial earthwork bank surmounted with metal plates and two pits for the raising and lowering of the targets. Low banks which may be distance-markers are visible in the bog between the huts and targets.
(ROG95 443-4)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 22 March 1995

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May 2 2008 4:14PM

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