Inverarish Burn
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Shieling (Post Medieval)
Site Name Inverarish Burn
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Shieling (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 289252
Site Number NG53NE 219
NGR NG 5662 3730
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG53NE 219 5662 3730
NG 5662 3730 Kerb Cairn with Shieling. The cairn is set on a steep south facing, heather covered slope and is an oval shaped spread of stones 8m long from north to south and 6m wide. There is little doubt that this was a small kerbed cairn into which a shieling was inserted many millennia later taking advantage of the dry raised base and abundant supply of building materials it afforded.
Some 40m to 50m to the west is a two compartment shieling lying sheltered from the prevailing wind under a large rocky outcrop.
Site identified during an archaelogical survey on Raasay by the ACFA.
Anne Wood and Scott Wood, 2004.
