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Skye, Allt Sgeiteadh
Blackhouse (Post Medieval), Pen (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skye, Allt Sgeiteadh
Classification Blackhouse (Post Medieval), Pen (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 352758
Site Number NG32SE 33
NGR NG 35917 22669
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/352758
- Council Highland
- Parish Bracadale
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (31 August 2016)
This blackhouse is situated on the edge of terrace just 20m S of the Allt Sgeiteadh and within an area of enclosed ground formerly cultivated by lazy bedding. It measures 7.8m from NNE to SSW by 2.9m transversely within stone walls up to 2.3m in thickness and 0.7m in height, and there is an entrance 0.6m wide in the ESE wall at the lower (NNE) end of the building. There are indications that an earlier structure underlies the NNE end, while the SSW end appears to have been rebuilt. A small pen has been constructed in the SSE corner.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (GFG) and Forestry Commission (MR) 31 August 2016.
