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MHG19127 - Farmstead - Badenahauglish

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NC90NW 33 911 097

A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings, a field-system and an enclosure are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcviii). Three unroofed buildings, a field-system and an enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1964).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 25 October 1995

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. 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.

The remains of a circular structure joined to a rectangular structure (11A). At the southern area of the group of buildings had been partly disturbed on the north-west side by the levelling of ground at the entrance to the bothy. Despite this, the structure survived in a good state of preservation, around 4m by 3m across and to a height of 1.1m. The stone walls were 1m thick. The remains of two well-built walls (11C) ran from the buildings, meeting the burn to the south-west. The western wall stood to almost 1.7m high and was 1.1m thick close to the burn, but both walls were generally 0.5 to 0.7m high. The eastern wall formed a revetment to raised ground. The walls seem likely to form part of a mill lade, water was still present at the end of the channel where it met the burn. A later track and fording point have been constructed over the probable upstream entrance to the lade. Revetment of the burn on the western edge was also visible.The remains of a well-built stone wall (11D) at the eastern edge of the group of buildings appears to be the remains of a substantial building, destroyed during the construction of the track. Further building walls are also visible in the area. Between the buildings 11D and 11A there is a dump of rubble which appears to be part of the levelling associated with the track.An enclosure (11E) marked on the Ordnance Survey first edition map abuts the Badenahauglish Burn and appears to be an animal enclosure. The enclosure survives to a height of 0.7m and the walls were around 0.4m thick. The dry-stone structure was moss-covered with dense bracken in the interior.Abutting enclosure 11E was a curvilinear field bank of stone and earth construction (11F). The bank was 1m wide and 0.2m high in a fair condition and petered out to the south-west. Field survey suggests that this may be the site of a mill, with mill lade and corn-drying kiln barn. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 9115 0977 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC90NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	LOTH

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