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MHG14049 - Township - Alligin Shuas

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A township comprising sixty-four roofed, three partially roofed and eighteen unroofed buildings.

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A township comprising sixty-four roofed, three partially roofed and eighteen unroofed buildings, eighteen enclosures, some field walls and parts of a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet lxxxi). One of the unroofed buildings is situated in an area marked as an Infants Burying Gound which was "formerly used as a burying place for infants under one year." (Name Book). Twenty-seven roofed, thirty-three unroofed buildings, several enclosures, some field walls and parts of a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Name Book 1881

8332 5783: Small corn-drying kiln deserted settlement. (No details given.) M MacDonald 1992. (see MHG29359)

NG 834 582 The site name (Torran nam Tiodhlacaidh) means 'the little mound of the burial', and is one of a group of mounds around Loch Torridon which are associated locally with the burial of unbaptised infants. Such a mound was the subject of a rescue excavation in the 1970s at Shieldaig, and was dated to the Bronze Age.
M Macdonald 1995.

NG 8318 5768 Cruck slots still survive within this ruinous building. (See MHG14707)
J Wordsworth 1995.

A walkover survey and desk-based assessment was undertaken by J Wordsworth and J Harden at Torridon for the National Trust for Scotland in 1996-2002.

This area of NE-facing hill ground is defined by the old head dyke to the S, an old track to the W and the Alligin Gorge to the E. This area is shown as having roofed structures on the 1837 estate map And MM refers to it as Braigh Alligin.
015a NG83435785 (MM D10) The ruins of a rectangular structure, aligned NW-SE, has an enclosure on its NE side. The structure is c15m by c4.5m over walls c0.7m thick. It is divided into three - the SE end is cam long, with walls only c0.2m high; the central part is c7m long with walls c1m high; the NW end is c5m long and the walls only c0.2m high. The enclosure is c17m by c21m.
015b NG83365784 (MM D7-9) To the E by the stone dyke, are the remains of a possible grain-drying kiln and two wee stone settings. The bowl of the kiln is cam in diameter, the wee stone structures are c1.5-2m in diameter. 015c NG83365790 (MM D6) The ruins of a rectangular structure with rounded ends, aligned NW-SE, has a yard attached to its SW side. The structure measures c11m by c4m over walls c0.6m thick and c0.3m high with a slightly off-centre internal division. The yard is defined by stones and boulders and has a maximum dimension of c1m.
015d NG83335789 (MM D5) The ruins of a rectangular structure, aligned NW-SE, is c12m long by c5m over lime mortared walls c0.6m thick and standing up to lm high along part of the SW wall. There is an internal division creating one-third at the SE end and two-thirds at the NW end. There appears to be vestigial evidence for a round-ended structure at the SE end of the building, c2m long. There is a platform in front of the building, which is revetted by a wall up to lm high.
015e NG83325791 (MM D4) The slight remains of one or two rectangular structures are sited within just N of the bend in the old track that runs up to the rockface by TORt94f. The structure is aligned W-E, has rounded ends and is c6.5m by c3m over walls spread to c0.8m thick and c0.4m high.
015f NG83295793 (MM D3) The slight remains of a rectangular structure aligned N-S is sited at the end of the grassed-over track by the outcropping rockface. It measures c5.5m by c4m over walls defined by boulders sticking through the turf.
015g NG83265795 (MM D2) Marked on the OS map are the remains of a rectangular structure aligned NW-SE measuring c6.5m by c3m over walls c0.6m thick and c0.8m high.

Down by the shore are a group of 7 unroofed structures, most still standing to wallhead and full gable height. They first appear on the 1875 OS map.
187a NG82765754 (MM A2) This is the least surviving structure in the group. Aligned N-S, it is c5.5m by c3m over walls c0.5m-0.6m thick and surviving up to 1.8m at its S end, where a slight addition seems to have been added measuring c2m long. There is a large ash tree growing out of its N end.
187b NG82775755 (MM A3) To the NE is an unroofed structure aligned NE-SW with its entrance in the SE wall. It is c8m by c4m over walls c0.6m thick and standing to wall head height although the gables do not survive to their full " height. The surviving NE gable has a square vent in its upper part. MM records this as a barn with vents in both gables.
187c NG82775753 (MM-A4c to the S, just above the shore, is an unroofed structure aligned NE-SW with an entrance in its SE wall. It is c7m by c3m over walls c0.6-0.7m thick built directly onto the outcropping bedrock. The walls stand to the wallheads and both gables are complete ¬having a rounded " top. The building has rounded corners and there is one pair of cruck slots in the SW part of the structure.
187d NG82785753 (MM A5) Immediately to the east is an unroofed structure aligned NE-SW with a blocked entrance at the N end of the NW wall. It is c7m by c2.2m over walls c0.5m thick and standing to over 1m high. Evidence for the pitch of the roof has not survived.
187e NG82765758 (MM A18) Aligned NE-SW this unroofed structure most recently had a single pitch to its roof - the SE wall being higher than the NW wall. There is an entrance in its SE wall and the SW end has a square vent in its uppermost part. However, the structure looks as if its S quarter has been rebuilt - for the NE end of the building is rounded and only c3m wide, while the SW end is squared and is c4.5m wide. The structure is c6.5m long over walls c0.7m thick at the base standing to the wellheads. MM records that it was an outbuilding, now used at times to pen sheep.
187f NG82805753 (MM A6) Just to the east of the burn is an unroofed structure aligned NW-SE with its entrance in the SE gable. It is c4.5m by c3m over walls c0.6m thick standing to the wellheads and the full gable heights. Originally this structure seems to have been c7.5m long, but its SE half has all but disappeared and is only seen as boulders sticking through the grass. There is a rowan tree growing in the surviving part of the structure.
187g NG82805751 (MM A7) To the south is a large unroofed structure aligned NE-SW with its entrance in the SE wpll.ind three pairs of cruck slots almost down to floor level. It is c8.5m by c3m over walls c0.5m thick and standing more or less to the wellheads, although only the SW gable stands to its full pitched height. The lower part of the SW gable has rounded corners. Three trees grow inside the SW end of the building. Immediately to the NW is a small very ruinous structure, c3m by c2m over walls c0.5m thick and c0.5m high.
The area between the two burns (TOR187) is bounded across the north by the old head dyke. Two new houses have been built just to the north of the road within this area - feus 40 & 41.

This area is bounded to the west & east by the two burns that also make the boundaries of the area TOR187 to the south. The old head dyke is the south boundary of TOR188 and along its north side are the old crofthouse and associated structures (TOR188a) now replaced by the new house on feu 41. North of these buildings is the old path that crosses the hill grazings to the west. There are structures in the area marked on the 1837 estate map.
188a NG82885785 The structure to the east is a long rectangular structure with a pitched tin roof, and is still in use. The old crofthouse is now roofless but was a single storey structure with pitched tin roof and a flue in each gable. There is a central entrance facing south with flanking window openings and a central window in the rear wall. A walled 'garden' is to the front of the house.
188b NG82935787 (MM C7). A ruined rectangular clay-mortared structure, aligned W¬E, is c10m by c5m over walls c0.6m thick. The north wall stands up to 1.5m high, while the south wall is only c0.3m high, and there is a possible flue in remains of the east gable. A tree grows out of the rear north wall. Marked on the OS map is a small rectangular structure at NG82895788. It still stands to over lm high. To the east of this are the remains of a rectangular structure aligned N-S, measuring c5.5m by c3.5m over walls c0.7m thick and still standing up to lm at the front, the rear wall being less high as the building has had to be cut into the slope of the hillside.
188c NG82945792 (MM C1) This is a complex area of various phases of structures. At the NE is a structure standing to wellheads and full gable heights, c5m by c3m, with an entrance in its S end. It appears to have been built within a possible yard attached to a long structure - both of these survive as boulders through the bracken/grass. The long structure is aligned N-S and measures c11m by c4m. The yard to its NE is at least c6.5m by c5m. Immediately to the SW are the slight remains of other structures/defined areas, which might even be originally part of a round house at least 8m in diameter. Abutting the SW of this is a ruinous rectangular structure aligned NW-SE. It is c9m long by cam over walls c0.6m thick and standing up to 1.5m at its SE gable but only c0.3-0.5m high around the other walls. A yard abuts this building to the SW c10m by c9m.
188d NG82975797 (MM C2) an enclosure is marked on the OS map which has been planted with half-a-dozen conifers. Abutting this on its SSW side are the vestigial remains of a rectangular structure, c10.5m by c4m over walls possibly c0.8m thick but are largely grassed over.

This area is bounded by the road down to Wester Alligin to the E, the burn to the W, and the old head dyke to the S. It includes two crofthouses - Glachacro (45) and Midwest (46) and an old crofthouse (TOR189c) now overshadowed by a large agricultural shed (also 46?). The area has roofed buildings shown on the 1837 estate map.
189a NG82975779
189b NG82995776 Marked on the OS map this structure with its yard is immediately N of the old head dyke and below the track/new 'road' through to Camustrol. Aligned WNW-ESE, the truncated yard is currently used as a timber store but the slight remains of th6 rectangular structure are ell m by c4.5m over walls c0.6m thick. An entrance is in the W side of the S wall.
189c NG82975782 Marked on the OS map this crofthouse aligned NNW-SSE is a classic late-19th century one-and-a-half storey building with two flues in each
gable.
189d NG82995785 (MM C5) A rectangular, clay-mortared, unroofed crofthouse, aligned N-S, surviving to its wallheads and full gable height at the N end. It is c9m by c 5m over walls c0.7m thick. A central entrance in its W wall is flanked by two windows. Abutting the S gable is an extension slightly narrower than the house MM identifies this as the byre), with an entrance against the house gable wall. It is c4m by c4m with its S gable still standing to almost full height. There is a tree growing in each part of this building.
1 89e NG83045784 (MM C6) A rectangular unroofed structure, its NW gable surviving to full height, the other walls standing to only c 1.2m. It is aligned NW-SE and measures c8m by c4m over walls c0.6m thick, with an internal dividing wall. There appear to be two openings in the front wall and a possible entrance between the two 'rooms' at the rear of the dividing wall. Some 5m to the SW are the vestigial remains of a structure of slightly smaller size defined by boulders sticking through the turf , which is marked on the 2nd ed OS map.
189f NG83015792 (MM C4) A pitched roofed rectangular structure is still in use, which is sited on an earlier structure.
189g NG83045793 (MM C3) The slight remains of a rectangular structure, aligned NNE-SSW, is c10m by c4.5m over walls c0.7m thick and c0.3m high. Its S end has been rebuilt into a structure c3m by c1 .5m over walls c0.4m thick and still standing up to c1m high.
189h NG83095795 An enclosure is marked on the OS map with maximum dimension c13m over walls spread to cq.8n? and c0.7m high. A telegraph pole is sited in its interior.
189j NG83075777 (MM C8) Immediately below the road by the passing place are the slighted remains of a rectangular structure, aligned NW-SE, is c10m by c4.5m which until recently was the stance for a caravan site.

This area is bounded by the old head dyke to the N and burns to the W & E. It concentrates on a group of buildings 190a-g with rig and clearance heaps to the S, but also includes a new house site just to the S of the road through to Camustrol. It runs into TOR191 to the S. These buildings first appear on the 1875 OS map.
190a NG82915771 (MM B1) A ruined rectangular structure aligned N-S is c10m by c4m over walls c0.6m thick standing more than 0.6m high, with the S end surviving to over 1.4m high. The S end has rounded corners, the N end is squared. The entrance is in the W wall. There are three rowan trees growing out of the interior of this building.
190b NG82935770 (MM IP) The low remains of a rectangular structure aligned NE-SW is c 7m by c3m over vAlls.c0.5m wide and up to 0.6m high. There is an entrance in the SE wall.
190c NG82945768 (MM B3) This unroofed rectangular structure, aligned N-S, has rounded ends and three pairs of cruck slots in its long walls from almost floor level. It is c10m by c3.5m over walls c0.6m thick standing mostly to the wallheads The S gable is almost complete, the N one is less so. There is an entrance in the E wall. Two birch trees and one rowan are growing from the interior of this building.
190d NG82925767 (MM B4) A rectangular structure, aligned W-E is c11m by c4.5m over walls c0.6m thick standing to the wellhead along the N wall but only to cl m along the S wall. There are two cruck slots visible in the w half of the N wall, but the third one to the E appears to have been concealed by the construction of a cross wall that divides the interior into two-thirds to the W, one-third to the E. A small tree grows out of the E interior.
190e NG82905767 (MM B5) The slight remains of a rectangular structure aligned N-S measures c4.5m by c3m over walls c0.6m thick and c 0.5m high.
190f NG82895768 (MM B6} An unroofed rectangular structure, aligned NE-SW, still stands to its wellheads and pitched gables. The inner skin of the gable is just lower than the outer to provide support to the roof - tin?? There is a square vent at the uppermost point of the SW gable, and the entrance in the SE wall. the structure is c8m by c4m over walls c0.5m thick.
190g NG82905769 (MM B7) Immediately to the N is a larger unroofed rectangular structure, aligned NE-SW, with rounded ends. It is c1 0m by c3.5m over walls c0.5m thick standing to the wellheads and to the rounded gable tops. There is a central entrance in the SE wall and two pairs of cruck slots almost to floor level in the SW half of the building - not immediately obvious in the NE half because of the undergrowth, but presumably they are there. v. ' a'
190h NG82955778 Marked on the OS map is a rectangular structure between the route of the 'new' road through to Camustrol and the old path there. It was presumably destroyed during the construction of the new Beaton crofthouse immediately S of the road.
East of this group of structures at NG8300576 is an area adapted or recently built as a sheep fank.
190j NG83015768 On a rocky knoll above the recent sheep handling area but not marked on the OS map is a rectangular structure aligned NNE-SSW. It measures c9m by c3.5m over walls c0.5m high and spread to c0.8m or more. The N end of the structure has rounded corners.

Towards the sea, at the S end of TOR190 with its cultivation strips, are a series of structures which first appear on the 1875 OS map:
191a NG82885757 (MM A17) A ruinous rectangular structure, aligned NW-SE, is c10m by c3.5m over walls c0.5m thick and standing up to c1.5m at the SE end.
191b NG82895755 (MM A16) A rectangular structure aligned N-S with slight rounded ends and an entrance in the W wall measures c7m by c3.5m over walls c0.5m thick standing to c1.5m high except for the E wall which is very ruinous. There are four trees growing inside the structure.
191c NG82935752 (MM A8) A rectangular structure, aligned N-S, with rounded ends, is c7.5m by c3.5m over walls c0.5m thick and at least 1m high. There is no evidence for any gables bu there are two pairs of cruck slots almost to ground level. The entrance is in the E wall. *There are trees immediately around the building.
191d NG82955751 (MM A9) A rectangular structure with rounded ends, aligned N-S, is cl0m by c3.5m and stands to the wellheads. However, it has presumably been modified as the interior has been re-used as a dump for cleared stones - it is completely infilled.

Immediately E of the burn as it flows into the sea are three structures which first appear on the 1875 OS map:
192a NG82965749 (MM A10) This pitched tin-roofed structure is c5m by c3.5m aligned NE-SW with a door in the SW gable. It is still in use.
192b NG82965747 (MM All) This unroofed structure, aligned NW-SE, stands to its wallheads and the full height of its pitched gables. The SE gable has a square vent in its upper part. There are netrances in both long walls - centrally in the SW wall and towards the E end of the NE wall. It is c5.5m by c3.5m over walls c0.5m thick. MM records that this was a winnowing barn.
192c NG82985747 (MM Al2) This pitched tin-roofed structure is c7m by c4m aligned W-E with a door in its N wall. There is a slit vent in the E gable. It is still in
use.
Against the edge of the 'beach' immediately to the S is a small ruinous structure c4m by c2m over walls c0.5m thick standing up to lm high. It is aligned N-S with an entrance in its E end.

This S-facing area of hill ground is defined by the old head dyke to the S, the road to Wester Alligin to the W and an old track to the E. Roofed structures are shown in this area on the 1837 estate map.
193a NG831 25772 (MM D20) An in-use structure (ai) with a flat tin roof is c4m square and has a doorway in its W side. It is sited on the W half of a longer structure, the remains of which are only defined by boulders sticking through the turf. S of this are the slight remains of another structure (aiii), aligned WSW-ENE, measuring c7m by c3m over boulders sticking through the turf. There is a slight structure at the E end. To the E, slighted by the 'new' road to Baclenbea, is another slight rectangular structure (aii), aligned W-E and measuring c13m by at least c4m over walls c0.7m thick. It is divided internallVinto one-third to the W and two-thirds to the E. There is a tree growing out of the W part.
193b NG83185775 (MM D12) The slight remains of a rectangular structure with rounded ends, aligned NW-SE, is c10m by c3m over turf and stone walls c1m thick and c0.5m high. There is an off-centre internal division.
193c NG83175778 (MM D13) A rectangular unroofed structure, aligned NW-SE, stands to its wallheads and almost full gable heights. A central entrance is flanked by a window on each side, there is a slight revetted platform in front of the building with a slight mound in front of it. The house measures c7m by c4m over walls c0.6m thick. It may have been constructed on an earlier structure - there being the slight remains of a rounded end c1.5m W of it.
193d NG83235782 (MM 011) The slight remains of a rectangular structure with rounded ends, aligned NW-SE, with a yard to the W. It measures c9m by c4.5m over turf and stone walls c1m thick and up to c0.5m high. The yard, roughly defined by stones and boulders, is cam square.
The track to the NE is defined by boulders along each edge sticking through the turf.

This area is defined by the old head dyke to the N of the crofts of Bellavista (38) and Baclenbea (37) and the once cultivated ground in-front of (ie S of) both houses.
At the N edge of the area, set against the old head dyke are three structures:
195a) A small square structure, now with a single-pitched tin roof is set against the up-side of the old head dyke. It has a door opening in the S-facing wall and is c3m square. Marked on the 1:2,500 OS map, abutting 195a) but on the down-side of the old head dyke, is a rectangular structure set at 45degrees to 195a). This was not seen during the survey.
195b) is immediately E of 195a) but on the down-side of the head dyke. It is a long rectangular structure aligne6 NNW-SSE and measuring ci 9m by c4m over walls c0.6m thick. The N part (ciOm long) was a clay mortared, gabled, house with chimneys in both ends, and a central door flanked by a window on each side, but the walls do not survive to the wallheads. A tree grows in the NW corner of the house. MM records
cruck slots in this ruin.
butting the house is a structure (possibly a byre) - c5m long - with a doorway with its stone lintel surviving at its NW corner and a window opening to the S. There appears to be a blocked window in its SSE gable. A further structure has been added to the SSE gable - with a single pitched tin roof. It is c4m long and only c3m wide, the front wall now being higher than the back wall to take the slope of the tin roof. There is a door in its NW corner.
195c) is to the E of 195b). Aligned WNW-ESE, it consists of what was probably originally a clay-mortared, gabled, house with chimneys in both gables (now hidden by fallen rubble), c10m by c5m over walls c0.8m thick standing to to its front and back wellheads. The doorway is flanked by a window to either side. The remains of a cruck slot is clearly seen just inside the door on the left front wall. Abutting the structure to the W is a c5m square addition with a doorway just E of centre and a possible window in the W gable.
A drystone dyke creates a small enclosure against the back of 195c). A dyke from 195b) to the old head dyke forms the rear enclosure for that structure.
The land immediately S of these structures has been cultivated in the past. It then drops down over outcropping rock to the lower, larger rigs/fields, with clearance cairns, consumption clearance mounds, long thin old rigs evident, some of which have rough drstone dykes along their lengths, within the now post-&-wired fenced areas.
195d) At NG83105765, by the outcrop rocks at the lower level, are the ruins of another structure aligned W-E, and measuring c11m by c5m over walls c0.7m thick, standing to wall head heights. The W part woes a house with a doorway flanked by a window on each side. The window to the W has since been blocked up, that on the E is also largely blocked. A tree grows within the W end of the house. The W gable end is now curved rather than pointed (but that may have been its original form). Apparently abutting this, although any original gable wall has been removed, is a square structure with a doorway at its W end. The E part of this now has a roof formed as a single-pitch with its higher edge at the front of the structure.

196a NG83055742 (MM A13) An unroofed rectangular structure set against the 'cliff edge and aligned W-E. The W end has part of its gable top surviving, the E end has an entrance in its NE corner. It is c7m long by c3m wide over walls c0.8m thick and standing to the wallheads.
196b NG831 25742 (MM A14) An unroofed rectangular structure full to the brim with brambles! It is aligned NE-SW and the walls survive to wallheads and full gable heights. It is c3m by c2m but was originally longer - its SW half has been largely removed but is visible in the stone setting on the ground. There is now no entrance to this structure - the blocked entrance is in the E wall, but there is a square vent in the upper part of the NE gable.
196c NG83185739 (MM A15) A ruinous rectangular structure, aligned NE-SW, the stones having been robbed to Ilfock the bottom of the adjacent post-and-wire fence line.
196d NG83295737 A ruinous rectangular structure with the remains of a tin roof and a tree growing out of the interior. It is aligned NE-SW, has an entrance in the SW end and measures c3m by c 2m over walls c0.4m thick and standing up to 1.2m high.

The crofts at Port a' Chaobaill (31 & 32) are enclosed within an old dyke and have obvious rigs running down to the stoney bay, where there is a cleared slip for the boats at its E side. Today, access is via a 'new' road but in the past it was by boat or on foot from Wester Alligin, for there is a made-up pathway, including steps, running W from croft 32. The crofts are first shown on the 1902 OS map.
There are various small roofed buildings associated with the crofts and a couple of unroofed ruined structures. One is at the E corner of the bay, against the outcrop, measuring c4m by c2m over walls c0.4m thick and standing up to lm high. The other is just over the enclosing dyke c25m E of the first. The remains of this rectangular structure with rounded ends, aligned N-S, is c6.5m by c3m over walls spread to c0.8m and up to 0.7m high.

These structures are sited on the W-facing hillside above the road down to Wester Alligin. Roofed structures are shown in this area on the 1837 estate map.
207a NG83095790 (MM 019) There are the remains of at least two structures abutting each other at this point, aligned NE-SW. The SW building is c13m by c5m over walls c0.6m thick and c0.7m high. There is the slight remains of a platform to the W of the building. A tree is growing out of the interior of the SW part of this building. The structure immediately to the NE may be 'L-shaped' in plan. In total it is c8m long and c3m wide over walls c0.6m thick and standing c0.4m high. Both structures are divided internally.
207b NG83085789 (MM D18) Against the E edge of the road just to the S are the slight remains of a rectangular structure, aligned NE-SW, with a tree growing out of its interior. It is el 1m by c4m liver walls c0.7m thick with an internal division, and an external revetting wall along its E side survives.

7c NG83105785 (MM D17) The vestigial remains of a rectangular structure aligned WNW-ESE is c8m by c2.5m over walls c0.5m thick defined by boulders sticking through the turf. There is an internal division. MM noted the footings of two small structures nearby.
207d NG83095782 (MM D16) An 'L-shaped' arrangement of the remains of two ruined structures, one aligned NW-SE, while against its SE end is another aligned SW-NE. That to the W is c10m by c5m over walls c0.6m thick and up to 0.8m high. That aligned SW-NE is of similar plan size but survives less well - inded, perhaps it is a yard?
207e NG831 05780 (MM D15) The remains of a rectangular structure aligned NW-SE is c6m by c3.5m over walls c0.6m thick and c0.5m high.

The area at the SE corner of the junction of the road to Diabeg and that down to Wester Alligin is a new house site with a dense planting of conifers around it. The 1968 OS map show the remains of at least four rectangular structures in this area - it is not known whether they survive. Roofed structures are shown in this area on the 1837 estate map.
Against the S post-and-wire deer-fenced boundary at NG831 95797 (MM D1) are the remains of a square feature of contiguous boulders set on edge measuring c4m square.

Glaic South; Four round-ended structures are sited west and south-west of the sheepfank (TOR209a) beside the Diabaig road. The sheepfank has been created as a complex of drystone walled areas which, on the 1st ed OS map, was shown as 2 roofed structures.
209b} is the W-most round-ended structure, aligned NE-SW, and c6m by c2.5m. The 'walls' are marked by boulders (max cO.6m dimension) set on edge in the turf/rushes.
209c ) is to the SE and consists of two round-ended structures set at right angles to each other on a knoll overlooking the burn that flows down to Wester Alligin. The slightly smaller structure, aligned N-S, is c11.5m by c4m, over 'walls' c0.6m wide but showing as boulders through the turf. It is divided into two. Immediately to the E, though apparently not actually abutting each other, is a slightly larger structure. It is aligned W-E and is c13m bytc5fii over walls c0.8m thick and standing up to 0.3m high.
209d) is a round-ended structure to the NE aligned NE-SW and c8m by c3.5m over indistinct 'walls'Roofed structures are shown in this area on the 1837 estate map but 209b-d) are unroofed by 1875.

Immediately west of the road to Diabaig and above the cast iron fence is a drystone dyke which wends its way W-wards, consisting of large boulders against which smaller ones are set.
At NG82955810 is a round-ended drystone structure aligned ENE-WSW and c10m by c3m within walls c0.6m thick and standing to c0.3m high. A drain is evident at the base of the ENE wall. There is an addition on its WSW end, c3.7m square over walls c0.6m thick and c0.3m high. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 8300 5773 (1231m by 834m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG85NW
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