Sy66 Sandray
Blackhouse(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Sy66 Sandray
Classification Blackhouse(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 338323
Site Number NL69SW 143
NGR NL 64146 92284
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/338323
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Barra
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit
SY66 (NL64119231) Blackhouse.
Location: Peat covered plateau shelf at edge of gully of Allt a Mhuilinn.
Description: Subrectangular single cell, 4 x 3 m, unimproved blackhouse with stone-faced 0.9 m thick walls, corners rounded externally and opposing doorways east and west.
Note: Possible platform. Erosion by weathering and rabbit burrowing.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73
SY67 (NL64149228) Cairn.
Location: Peat-covered plateau shelf.
Description: Mounded pile of stones 2 m diam. with sizes of 0.15 - 0.4 m. Could be a clearance cairn.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73
SY68 (NL64189225) Complex of blackhouse and shelter.
Location: Peat-covered plateau shelf over-looking gully of Allt Mhuilinn.
Description: Sub-rectangular, 5 x 2.5 m, unimproved blackhouse with later shelter built inside.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73
SY68a (NL64189225) Blackhouse.
Description: The building is masked to some extent by displaced stone and has been subject to reuse as a shelter (B) that was built on top of one half of the partly deconstructed house. The underlying house appears to be a subrectangular single cell, approximately 5 x 2.5 m, unimproved blackhouse with thin walls c. 0.50 m thick and possibly opposing doorways north and south. Building blocks in 1.5 - 0.8 m range. These dimensions are more suitable for a shieling hut, but may be all that a single shepherd of the post-clearance phase would require.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73
SY68b (NL64189225) Shelter.
Description: Mass of reused tumbled stone in squared construction, 1 x 1 m, forms single cell shelter inside eastern half of house.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73
SY82 (NL64129223) Cairn (mound).
Location: Inside dyke mid-slope of Allt a Mhuilinn.
Description: Circular, 7 m diam., grassed mound and a few random stones. Note: Covered by heather
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 74
SY83 (NL64119226) Shieling.
Location: Inside dyke mid-slope of Allt a Mhuilinn.
Description: Rounded subrectangular single cell, 3 x 2.5 m, with earth and stone walls 0.6 m thick, entrance to south. Note: Covered by heather.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 74
SY97 (NL64129229) Complex of two shelters.
Location: Lower-slope plateau overlooking dyke.
Description: Two oval cojoined shelters using large stone blocks. Note: Stones 0.5 - 1 m range could be rebuild from earlier monument.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 75
SY97a (NL64129229) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Oval single cell, 4 x 3 m, built with large blocks 0.5 - 0.7 m.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 75
SY97b (NL64129229) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Oval single cell, 3.5 x 3 m, built with large blocks 0.5 - 1 m, possibly as an annex to (a), or the standing remains of an earlier structure.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 75
