Skye, Oronsay | Canmore

Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Skye, Oronsay

Classification Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 11068

Site Number NG33NW 9

NGR NG 315 361

NGR Description Centred NG 315 361

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11068

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DP 155928

Oblique aerial view of Oronsay, looking E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

31/3/2013

DP 109359

Oblique aerial view of the remains of a fish trap at Oronsay, and the nearby cultivation remains on Oronsay and at Ullinish, Isle of Skye, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

30/4/2011

DP 155927

Oblique aerial view of Oronsay, looking W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

31/3/2013

SC 2358886

Skye, Oronsay, NG33NW 9, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

DP 109360

Oblique aerial view of the remains of a fish trap at Oronsay, and the nearby cultivation remains on Oronsay and at Ullinish, Isle of Skye, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

30/4/2011

DP 155929

Oblique aerial view of Oronsay, looking ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

31/3/2013

SC 2358887

Skye, Oronsay, NG33NW 9, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

DP 095018

General oblique aerial view of Loch Bracadale with Oronsay and Wiay in the middle distance, looking W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

1/9/2010

DP 095019

Oblique aerial view of Oronsay, Loch Bracadale, looking NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

1/9/2010

DP 109358

Oblique aerial view of the remains of a fish trap at Oronsay, and the nearby cultivation remains on Oronsay and at Ullinish, Isle of Skye, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

30/4/2011

DP 155925

Oblique aerial view of the fish traps at Oronsay, looking NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

31/3/2013

DP 155930

Oblique aerial view of Oronsay, looking NE.

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31/3/2013

DP 155926

Oblique aerial view of Oronsay, looking NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

31/3/2013

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Administrative Areas

Council Highland
Parish Bracadale
Former Region Highland
Former District Skye And Lochalsh
Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NG33NW 9 centred 315 361.

Area centred NG 315 361: At the NE end of Isle Oronsay on level ground below a low escarpment at about 75' OD there are at least 40 shielings in very ruinous condition and difficult to identify, the majority situated within an area of lazy-bed cultivation which probably accounts for their condition. (Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/175: 1016-17)

They are mainly of single-cell type, with a few double-cell examples, circular or oval on plan, measuring between 4.0 and 8.0m in diameter externally and averaging about 0.2m in height.

Visited by OS (C F W) 9 June 1961.

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