MHG8906 - Strath Sgitheach

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NH56SW 31 535 641
This pre-improvement settlement survives as low stone wall spreads (1-2m wide), which are completely grassed over. The settlement is focused on a long house (33m by 5m) oriented NE-SW with two internal partitions. At its SW end is a second smaller house or byre (14 by 5m), which was oriented NW-SE. Nearby, to SW, is a probable grain drying kiln and to the NE a substantial stone enclosure which measures 24 by 14m and is oriented NW-SE. A number of less prominent field walls extend from the settlement away from the river.
Visited June 1989.
Info from S T Driscoll and S M Foster (Mss, 5, No. 4.1.) 1989.

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 5349 6410 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NH56SW
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish DINGWALL

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