Skye, Allt Slugain Meadhoin
Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Mound(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skye, Allt Slugain Meadhoin
Classification Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Mound(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Sluganan
Canmore ID 10907
Site Number NG25NE 3
NGR NG 2887 5724
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10907
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG25NE 3 288 572.
At NG 288 572, upon the banks of the Allt Slugain Meadhoin immediately below a small waterfall is a group of 8 large ruined shielings at about 500ft OD.
They are twin-celled, but now reduced to green mounds up to 2.0m in height, two with dry stone walling exposed.
Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/175: 1376-7.
Visited by OS (ASP) 9 May 1961.
Field Visit (24 June 1990)
There are two buildings and several mounds in this group of shielings, which are situated on the banks of the Allt Slugain Meadhoin at the base of a steep slope, immediately W of a forestry plantation. The building on the N bank, which is built across the slope, measures some 7.5m from E to W by 3.5m transversely within stony banks spread to 2m in thickness and 1m in height. That to the S, occupying a low rise, is surrounded by a bank, providing a space about 2m wide between it and the building, which is itself sub-divided into two unequal compartments. It measures 6.6m from NE to SW by 2.6m transversely within rubble-faced walls 1.2m in thickness and 0.9m in height.
(WAT 90 1003, 1004).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 24 June 1990.
