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MHG61153 - Building - Roshven

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Ken and Jean Bowker undertook a survey of a very ruinous moss-covered building in the grounds of Roshven House between December 2012-February 2013. It was located at NM 70463 78617, on a sloping platform, 20m north-west of an disused estate track known locally as English Lane. To the north-west of the ruin, the ground falls across a boggy area to a burn. Nothing is shown on the OS First Series or later maps.
The two-roomed building faced roughly north-west with an entrance on the north-west wall. It had rounded corners inside & outside, with 0.6m or so thick stone walls to 0.5m high in places. There was a tumbled enclosure wall, with a stone scatter within it, extending generally eastwards from the south-east corner.
Between the burn below the ruin and the nearby shore of Loch Ailort was a stone-built causeway about five metres high carrying what was until 2011 the drive into Roshven House. It was postulated that the occupants of the building would have had easy access to the sea before this causeway was built in the mid-1800s.
A metal-detector survey found no artefacts. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NM 7046 7861 (40m by 40m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM77NW
Civil Parish	ARISAIG AND MOIDART
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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