Monument record MHG42663 - CROFT DUNCAN, BALLACHROAN

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NH70SW 28 7263 0033

This township which is situated on the NW edge of an improved field about 600m W of Ballachroan, comprises eight buildings, two enclosures, three small cairns and a head-dyke.
With one exception, the buildings, which are disposed in a single irregular cluster, are poorly preserved, having been severely robbed of their stone. They range in size from 10.2m to 15m in length by from 4.1m to 5.7m in breadth over stony banks spread to as much 1.2 in thickness and up to a maximum of 0.4m in height. The exception is better-preserved and is set upon a levelled platform; it measures 9.4m in length by 3.4m in breadth within faced-rubble walls 0.7m thick and up to 1m high, and there is an outshot to the SW (KING95 388). Two of the buildings are sub-divided into two compartments (KING95 389-90) and one into three, the latter overling an earlier structure built at right-angles to it (KING95 386). A midden hollow lies to the SE of another building, which may have been used as a byre (KING95 384).
The head-dyke which extends around the N side of the present field, post-dates several of the buildings (e.g.KING95 390-1); it probably relates to an early stage in the improvement of the farmland of Ballachroan rather than the township fields. There are three small cairns in the rough pasture to the W of the buildings.
The 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1872, sheet cii) shows one roofed and one unroofed building, an enclosure and a length of head-dyke.
(KING95 384-391)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 7 November 1995.