MHG43858 - Achlochan

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See Thumbnail photo - showing drystone built pen.
J Aitken : 12/03/02.

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User: Admin, Date: Fri 10 Mar 2000
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NC00NW 42 0219 0686

There is a subrectangular turf-walled hut in heather-covered ground at the base of a rocky knoll 320m SW of Achlochan House. It measures 3.5m NW-SE by 1.7m transversely within walls 0.9m thick and up to 0.25m high (ACHIL94 84; NC 0219 0686). About 40m to the S at NC 0219 0682 there is a pen, built against an outcrop on its WNW side, which measures 3.2m by 2.4m within drystone-rubble walls 1m high. It has an entrance in the NNE end.
(ACHIL94 84-5)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 19 May 1994

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Grid reference Centred NC 0219 0681 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NC00NW
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish LOCHBROOM

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