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Desk Based Assessment
Date 28 April 1966
Event ID 631790
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/631790
(Area: NA 086 000) In Gleann Mor, in addition to the Amazon's House (NA00SE 2) there are, according to Williamson, at least 16 other structures of similar type (Williamson and Boyd 1960 and 1963).
Thomas refers to them as 'Buaile Chrothaidh' or 'gathering folds' used in connection with the summer pasturing of sheep and cattle (F W L Thomas 1870).
That they were used as summer shielings until recent times is beyond dispute, but Williamson is convinced that they were not originally built for that purpose, being too well constructed with elaborate corbelling, and suggests that Gleann Mor was the scene of a permanent pastoral settlement either contemporary with, or more probably earlier than the Village Bay Colony (NF19NW 15). Scheduled.
Information from OS (BRS) 28 April 1966
K Williamson and J M Boyd 1960 and 1963; F W L Thomas 1870.
