Monument record MHG28486 - Allt na Luibe

NC60NE 36 6593 0920

In rough, often boggy grassland on the NE bank of the Allt na Luibe, about 800m SE of the now derelict farmsteading of Achatomlinie, there are the remains of a farmstead comprising two buildings, a corn-drying kiln and traces of two enclosures. The buildings lie N and S of each other, 18m apart and joined by a length of bank. The N building (ROG95 212) measures 10.5m in length by 3.2m in breadth within a wall 0.7m thick, largely reduced to a stony bank 0.3m high. The entrance was on the SE side. The NE half of the interior is level, while the SW half slopes away, suggesting that that end served as a byre. The S building measures 12.1m in length by 2.9m in breadth within a wall 0.8m thick, again reduced to a stony bank. The entrance may have been in the WSW side (ROG95 213). A stretch of bank runs SE from its S corner. The kiln is situated about 80m away to the SW, next to the burn at NC 6589 0912 (ROG95 216). Its bowl measures 2m in diameter and 1m in depth within a wall 1m thick, embanked with turf on its outer face, which stands 0.8m high. There is a barn to the SW, 4.4m in length by 3.1m in breadth within a wall 0.8m thick and 0.5m high. Immediately to the E of the kiln a substantial bank encloses a subrectangular area.
The N building (but not the S building) is depicted, roofless, on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcv), on the W side of a polygonal enclosure. The kiln-barn is also shown, as is the enclosure next to it. There is no depiction of any improved or arable ground in the surrounding area.
(ROG95 212-3, 216)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 8 March 1995