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MHG13158 - Settlement - Badenahauglish 1

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A desk-based assessment and walkover survey were carried out by CFA Archaeology in 2019 in advance of a proposed wind farm development at Kintradwell, Sutherland. The HER records that there is a settlement at this location comprising unroofed buildings, enclosures, and field walls. Another entry in the HER (MHG19127) records that a farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings; a field-system and an enclosure are depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet XCVIII). Three unroofed buildings, a field-system and an enclosure are shown on the 1964 Ordnance Survey map(RCAHMS, 1995). A number of possible structures are located in the area on Roy’s ‘Military Survey of Scotland’ map (1747-55) which may relate to the settlement. The 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map (Sutherland 1909, sheet XCVIII) depicts comprising three unroofed buildings and five irregular shaped enclosures and a field wall. Field survey identified a four-compartment building (11B), a possible corn-drying kiln (11A), a possible mill lade (11C), the remains of other structures (11D), an enclosure (11E), and field bank (11F). The long building (11B) was sub-divided into four compartments. Preservation was fair, with the walls surviving to between 0.5m and 1.8m high and around 0.5m thick. <1>

The features of the settlement, including a head dyke enclosing a large area to the northwest which also spans the Kintradwell Burn, are visible in vertical aerial photographs taken in 2020. <2>

See MHG19127 for further details of farmstead.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 9107 1000 (490m by 785m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC91SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	LOTH

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