Monument record 10211 - LSFH 40.6 Seaforth Head

Summary

Wood and stone bridge

Location

Grid reference NB 29501 16400 (point)
Map sheet NB21NE
Island Lewis
Parish LOCHS, Western Isles

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

"This bridge, constructed of a wooden deck on drystone piers, is 3 metres long and 2 metres wide and stands to a maximum of 1 metre tall. It has been built on the access road from the main road down to the Fisheries cottage (40.1) and provides a point of crossing over a canalised stream bed that runs down the south-eastern slopes of Beinn Lobheir and has been looped to the east around the site of the cottage." "Situated on the north shore of Loch Seaforth Head, at its eastern end, this crofting township is marked on the modern Ordnance Survey map (2003). Remains recorded include a blackhouse (40.4) and its stack yard (40.5), a Department of Fisheries cottage (40.1) and its garden enclosures (40.2) and several local bridges that form communications over the various streams and rivers that run in to the east end of Loch Seaforth Head (40.8 and 40.9)." (Burgess 2004, 66 and 70)


Chris Burgess, Northamptonshire Archaeology, 2004, Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of Eilean Chalium Chille and the Putative Site of the Seaforth Head Castle (Unpublished document). SWE41054.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Unpublished document: Chris Burgess, Northamptonshire Archaeology. 2004. Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of Eilean Chalium Chille and the Putative Site of the Seaforth Head Castle. Loch Seaforth Head Gazeteer.

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Record last edited

Jul 19 2004 2:47PM

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