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MHG7810 - Township, Newton Lodge

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On Roy's Map (that may be derived from Pont) there are two distinct settlements marked at Loggie. This SMR number is now used for the east settlement around the Dun where there are dispersed buildings. A number of these buildings were still occupied within living memory by local residents or their families. NH19SW0008 lies to the S of the Dun, there was another cottage to the W of this, now turf covered foundations (see photo). There were others to the N of the Dun. Mr Bastow (local researcher) points out the name "Newton" is probably significant, not least because it is English not Gaelic. The west village was deliberately cleared, prob in the EC19 and residents may have been dispersed here (to an extant settlement) and in Blarnalevoch. See 1st ed OS desc below. - HAW 12/2002

Dun excavations refer to excavation of 1 post med building "immediately below the ridge on which the fort stands". A C19 cruck framed stone cottage. A larghe quantity of pottery glass & other objects was recovered from the floor & later levels (Mackie: 1968: DES p41-2)
Close- Brook, 1986 Exploring Scots Heritage refers to abandoned crofthouses from the village of Newton Loggie can be seen S of the hill & cultivation ridges & clearance cairns W of it +
See barn NH19SW0008 - HAW 12/2002

NH19SW 4 Centred on 141 914

The depopulated settlement of Newton Loggie consists of 19 ruined buildings clustered round a modern sheepfold at NH 136914, and a further 8 buildings centred at 143914, together with the remains of two field walls.
Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (R D) 16 October 1964

Four roofed, two partially roofed and nine unroofed buildings, four enclosures and a sheepfold comprising five compartments of which three may once have been buildings, some field walls and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire and Cromartyshire 1881, sheet xxii). Three roofed and twenty-five unroofed buildings, three enclosures, a sheepfold and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1985). Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 14 February 1996

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Grid reference	Centred NH 1410 9140 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH19SW
Geographical Area	ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish	LOCHBROOM

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