Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725914

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO29SW 23 centred on 2424 9060

Seven shieling-huts and an enclosure, lying on a terrace above the Feith an Laoigh, were recorded during the course of a pre-afforestation survey by Headland Archaeology. The shieling-huts are subrectangular with turf or turf- and stone- walls.

S Carter and M Dalland (Headland Archaeology) 12 November 1996; NMRS, MS 899/11 no.7

NO 250 910 (centre) A short-notice forestry survey was undertaken by Headland Archaeology Ltd over roughly 2.4km2 of land in five separate areas in Glen Gelder. A total of seven features or groups of features of archaeological interest were recorded, four of which had previously been noted. Three post-medieval settlements were located along the Gelder Burn, with three groups of shieling huts and enclosures on the slopes and tributaries. A 2.3km long 19th-century deer-shooting trench was also noted.

NO 242 906 Sheiling huts (NO29SW 23).

NO 2249 9175-NO 2467 9236 Deer-shooting trench (NO29SW 22).

NO 249 922 Settlement (NO29SW 9).

NO 253 926 Shieling huts and enclosures (NO29SE 23).

NO 245 925 Settlement (NO29SW 10).

NO 250 914 Settlement (NO29SE 14).

NO 246 907 Sheiling huts (NO29SW 21).

Sponsor: Historic Scotland.

S Carter 1997.

These shieling-huts are situated on a gentle SE-facing slope in an area of heather and grouse moor at an altitude of 430m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/88.