Monument record MHG6349 - Smithy Ridge
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 5718 7480 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH57SE |
| Geographical Area | ROSS AND CROMARTY |
| Old County | ROSS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | ALNESS |
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Full Description
NH57SE 9 5718 7480.
(NH 5718 7480) Enclosure (NR) OS 25"map, (1967)
West of the Strone peat road is Druim na Ceardaich, Smith Ridge, with a circular ruin, said to have been a smithy.
W J Watson 1904.
A circular stone-walled hut in a commanding position at E end of a low ridge. It is scarped into a slope with its E arc built up to form a platform which is surrounded by a wall spread to about 4m all round, standing to a maximum height of 1.4m in SW. It measures 19.5m in diameter between wall centres. No facing stones are evident. The simple entrance in SE is about 2.5m wide. A break in N is due to mutilation and a modern hill dyke crosses hut from N to S. The hut occurs in an afforested are and there is no trace of contemporary cultivation.
Visited by OS (A A) 4 November 1970.
This hut is as described by the previous field investigator.
Revised at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (J B) 11 November 1976.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SHG2917 Text/Publication/Volume: Watson, W J. 1904. Place names of Ross and Cromarty. 80.
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- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM
