Monument record MHG34439 - CAOCHAN A' MHANAICH

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NH70SW 31 7404 0042

This farmstead, which is situated at the edge of a terrace on the S of the Caochan a'Mhanaich, comprises three much reduced grass-grown buildings, and there is a limekiln, about 100m to the WSW.
The buildings are aligned on roughly the same axis from NW to SE, and range in size from 6.8m to 11.5m in length by between 4m and 5.9m in breadth over walls reduced to low stony banks about 1m in thickness (KING95 713-716). One of the buildings (KING95 713) overlies an earlier structure (KING95 714) which lies at right angles to it.
The limekiln is now little more than a pit, set into the foot of the slope at the back of a terrace (KING95 712, NH 7393 0037). It measures 6.2m in diameter by 1.75m in depth and has an opening in the ESE for a draw-hole.
The Duke of Gordon's 1771 estate map of Pitmain farm depicts the farmstead as 'the Sclater's Croft', and shows all three buildings (SRO RHP 1859).
(KING95 712-6)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 7 November 1995