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Bac an Eich

849m high mountain in Ross and Cromarty in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, UK

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ13125685 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bac an Eich (849 m) is a mountain in Ross and Cromarty in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.

A very remote mountain, it lies at the head of Strathconan, from where it makes for a fairly straightforward climb with stalkers paths leading up to the summit. The nearest settlement is Inverchoran.

Editorial summary

“Bac an Eich” enters the record as 849m high mountain in Ross and Cromarty in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eich, 849m and high can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 51-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eich, 849m and high.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bac an Eich” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Eich, 849m and high provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13125685. Authority coordinates are 57.495, -4.968. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bac an Eich”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bac an Eich primary sources, Bac an Eich archive and Eich research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Bac an Eich”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Bac an Eich” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.