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MHG34506 - Byre and enclosures - BADAIR CHRAG

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Footings of large byre at Badair Chrag.

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NC 235 140 Footings of large byre at Badair Chrag probably to house oxen used to transport blocks of marble in late 1790s/early 1800s.
M Bangor-Jones 1998

Historic Assynt visited this site in May 2016.

A shieling is shown on Homes map of Ledbeg Farm and the Ox Byre which is aligned north - south, 18m x 4.5m internally with a store or annexe at its southern end which is of the same width and 2.6m across. The byre has two opposing entrances in the long walls close to the junction with the store. The walls are double faced and between 1.2 and 1.8m thick. A drain is visible the full length of the byre and appears to slope down to the centrefrom both ends. Presumably a drain then runs under the east wall which is down-slope from the west wall. The byre is adjoined by two enclosures both approx 60m x 60m, one lying to the east and with access to the byre through its east door and the other its mirror image to the west. The enclosure to the east (A) slopes gently down eastwards, but that to the west (B) rises more steeply westwards. Just beyond B's curving western boundary is another straighter dyke running roughly parallel N - S and which to the north turns at right angles to run both east and west. Running east it encloses a narrow area to the north of B. Running steeply uphill to the west then south and east to where it started, it surrounds a third enclosure © which is of similar overall size to the other two but longer E - W and shorter N - S. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2009 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 2350 1399 (230m by 123m)
Map sheet	NC21SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	ASSYNT

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