Archaeology Notes

Event ID 766834

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG15SE 63.00 centred on 187 535

63.01 1813 5327 Shieling-hut (Possible)

63.02 183 537 Shieling Mounds (Possible)

63.03 183 536 Shieling-huts

63.04 184 534 Structures

63.05 185 535 Cairns

A crofting township, comprising fifty-two roofed buildings, one partially roofed building, seven unroofed buildings and two head-dykes is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch maps (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1880, sheet xiv). Seventeen roofed, thirty-one unroofed buildings and two head-dykes are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).

Within the township boundaries are two shieling sites, cairns and structures which were recorded during field-survey by Miket and Wildgoose (1989).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 8 October 1996