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MHG18226 - Farmstead - Allt A' Choire, Skye

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Enclosure (listed only, no details given) recorded during a survey by ACFA in 1993. <1>

NG 648 223 - NG 662 215 As a follow-up to the survey undertaken by ACFA in the Broadford to Ord area, in 1995 a detailed field survey was undertaken by students in the 2nd year of the Glasgow University Certificate in Field Archaeology course, in the hinterland to the south of Harrapool and southwest of Skulamus. Over fifty rectangular to sub-rectangular buildings were recorded, varying in building material from turf to stone, together with associated small enclosures, field banks, rig cultivation and sheep-washes, indicative of pre- and post-clearance land use. <2> [Probably included within the survey area - IS-L 15/09/2025]

This site is visble in vertical aerial photographs located in a relatively small area between two burns and is clearly the remains of a farmstead, probably one of a number of such sites belonging to the pre-crofting township of Harrapool (see MHG27842). There is a vague feature at approximately this location on Matthew Stobie's 1766 map of the runrig townships around Harrapool, whch may be a representation of the main farm building. The remains consist of a sub-rectangular enclosure with a small building, possibly a byre, at its northwest corner and a larger building inmmediately adjacent to its southwest corner. There are possible indications of a third building c.45m due north. There are also slight indications of a small aea of rig or lazy beds. A larger area of rig lies to the immediate northeast on the opposite side of the eastern burn - as also shown on the Scobie map. <3> <4>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 6489 2197 (63m by 108m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG62SW
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	STRATH

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