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MHG28499 - Loch A'Ghiubhais

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NC60NE 48 6550 0607

This farmstead is situated on an E-facing slope, overgrown with bracken, about 450m SSW of Loch a' Ghiubhais. It comprises one turf building, a turf-built hut, an enclosure, a turf pen and an area of rig cultivation.
The building (ROG95 224) is situated close to the top of the slope. It is subrectangular, measuring 12m from E to W by 2.7m transversely within walls of turf on stone footings 0.7m thick, now reduced to 0.3m in height. The entrance is in the S side and the interior has been divided into three compartments. To the S of the building there is a subrectangular enclosure containing a pen, and to the E of these structures rig extends E down the slope for about 90m. The hut (ROG95 225) is at the SE edge of the rig; it measures 5.2m in length by 3.3m in breadth over a turf wall spread to 1m in thickness.
(ROG95 224-5)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 22 March 1995

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Grid reference	Centred NC 6549 0607 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC60NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	ROGART

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