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MHG19702 - Glen Glass, 'Garabil'

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Centred 561 690.

This site consists of the footings of five features, of drystone construction, overgrown with gorse and is now in very boggy ground of bog myrtle and juniper. The name appears on first edition 6" OS map with ruin and has an entry in OS name book, but local and estate enquiries have turned up no further info. (1) Turf-covered footings measuring 4.5m by 3m: walls are 1m thick. (2) Enclosure measuring 13m by 7.5m. (3) Footings measuring 6m by 3m, with a large pile of stones at one end. (4) Thick-walled feature, very overgrown with whins, measuring 12m by 3m. (5) An enclosure measuring c 6m by 6m.
In field to NW are large clearance heaps. The site may be Norse in origin.
M Macdonald 1994a.

What may be a township, comprising four unroofed buildings (NB in row HAW 6/2003) and a head-dyke are depicted on 1st edition of OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire & Cromartyshire 1881, sheet lxiv), but they are not shown on current edition of OS 1:10000 map (1992).
Info from RCAHMS (AKK) 29 February 1996.

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Grid reference	Centred NH 5610 6900 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH56NE
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	ALNESS

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