Skye, Allt Mor
Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skye, Allt Mor
Classification Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) An Cruachan
Canmore ID 353133
Site Number NG32SE 43
NGR NG 3789 2125
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/353133
- Council Highland
- Parish Bracadale
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (1 November 2016)
This sheiling structure stands on the W bank of a tributary of the Allt Mor some 700m E of a large group of shieling huts (NG32SE 6). It comprises three elements, the best preserved being a hut measuring 1.2m in diameter within a grass-grown stone wall up to 1.2m thick and 0.4m high There is an entrance on the NW. Attached to the SW side of this is a subrectangular enclosure or possibly a larger hut measuring 2.7m from NNE to SSW by 2.2m internally with an entrance on the SW. Attached to the NW corner of this feature is a hut measuring 1.1m in diameter which may have been accessed from the enclosure.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (GFG, MM) 1 November 2016.
