Rum, Harris, Hugh's Brae
Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Rum, Harris, Hugh's Brae
Classification Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 21932
Site Number NM39NW 49
NGR NM 3440 9651
NGR Description also NM 34315 96622 and NM 34438 96605
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21932
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (June 1983)
Harris, Hugh's Brae 2 NM 344 965 NM39NW
On the gently sloping ground to the W of Hugh's Brae there is a group of at least four huts, two of which overlie a mound about 0.8m high. The mound is oval, measuring 11.3m by 10m, and has an external kerb of low boulders; there are traces of other lines of stone-work within the body of the mound, which may have resulted from successive occupation on the site of an oval enclosure with a wall 1.7m thick. About 150m to the NW (NM 342 966) there is a small mound, probably the remains of a hut, measuring 5.7m by 5.3m over a kerb of low boulders, and, 100m to the NN E, an oval hut measuring 5.5m by 3.6m within its wall.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1983
(Love, 1981, 43)
