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MHG64219 - Building - Township, Glenuig

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Round ended drystone structure.

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A township comprising twenty-five unroofed, one partially roofed, twenty-five roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a school, a field-system, some enclosures, a field-system and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1876, sheet cxlviii). Seven unroofed, one partially roofed, thirty-five roofed buildings, some enclosures and some field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 August 1996

A walkover survey was conducted by Wordsworth Archaeological Services in 1996 for a proposed Woodland Grant Scheme application.

Site: Glenuig.
Description: The footings survive for a substantial rectangular building 9m by 4m that was shown as still roofed in 1899. The walls were were of well-coursed drystone construction 0.75m wide by 0.6m maximum surviving. It is not clear if it was turf walled above this or whether the upper stonework has been robbed out. To the N are the footings of two more chambers 4m square and also the slighter remains of an earlier building 1 lm by 4m that could have been a turf walled byre attached to the main house.
Further to the N is an area of rig defined within an enclosure 50m E/W and 35m N/S. The rig continues N beyond this enclosure to the area more clearly defined on the aerial photograph at site 10. There is an access through stone dyke 9 to this field immediately to the N of the house site shown on the OS map.
Recommendation: Both the house site and the field should be left clear of trees. This forms a discrete unit suitable for display and interpretation. Heather growth is fairly long here and it might benefit from selective muir burn to make the features more visible. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 1999-2001 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NM 6685 7693 (11m by 17m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM67NE
Civil Parish	ARISAIG AND MOIDART
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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