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Latitude: 58.0549 / 58°3'17"N
Longitude: -4.3374 / 4°20'14"W
OS Eastings: 262158
OS Northings: 909700
OS Grid: NC621097
Mapcode National: GBR H7NF.PWP
Mapcode Global: WH3BD.BSSX
Entry Name: Loch Tigh na Creige,house 200m N of E end of
Scheduled Date: 12 October 1988
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4569
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: house
Location: Lairg
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: North, West and Central Sutherland
Traditional County: Sutherland
The monument consists of a roofless crofthouse measuring 24m EW by 5m with a 5m long extension at the W end and an attached 10m radius semicircular sheepfold. Its walls are mortared and the original house has a fine set of half cruck sockets in both long walls. The area to
be scheduled measures 50m EW by up to 35m NS as delineated in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as part of a group of proposed schedulings in the area including a pre-clearance township, shieling groups, a farmstead and this structure which in its progression from presumed shepherds house through enlargement to abandonment and conversion into a sheepfold and now incorporation within a forestry plantation serves as a material paradigm of social and economic developments in Sutherland during the last century.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
Reference:
Mercer, R. (1980) Archaeological Field Survey in Northern Scotland 1976-1979, Number DAL 252.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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