Monument record MHG37595 - Torr An Fhamhair

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NM65NW 50 6347 5622 and 6351 5641

A possible building, a possible corn-drying kiln, several field clearance cairns and an enclosure, lying on a broad terrace to the E of Torr an Fhamhair, were recorded during a pre-afforestation survey on the Rahoy Estate. The possible building comprises a roughly rectangular spread of moss- and bracken-covered stones measuring about 10m from N to S by 4m overall. Two trees have grown up amongst the stones. A possible corn-drying kiln lies about 60m to the E. It measures 5m from N to S by 3m with traces of a wall-face possibly defining the circular chamber of a kiln. At the S end of the stony spread. A bracken-covered cairn, measuring 4m in diameter and 0.9m in height, lies about 15m to the N. What may be an enclosure defined by low banks and measuring 8m by 10m, lies 15m E of the cairn.
A further eight or nine clearance cairns, lying towards the back of the terrace at NM 6351 5641. The cairns measure up to 4m in diameter and stand up to 0.4m in height. A further pile of small field-stones lies a few metres to the N of the modern (1933) gravestone, which is depicted on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
C Lowe and J Wordsworth (Headland Archaeology) 25 May 1999; NMRS MS 899/147, no.18