Skye, Allt Geodha Nah-airigh Moire
Mound (Period Unknown)(Possible), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Mound(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Skye, Allt Geodha Nah-airigh Moire
Classification Mound (Period Unknown)(Possible), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Shieling Mound(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 353249
Site Number NG31NE 21
NGR NG 37876 19226
NGR Description Centred on
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/353249
- Council Highland
- Parish Bracadale
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (1 November 2016)
A group of shieling huts and shieling mounds stands astride the Allt Geodha nah-Airigh Moire in rough moorland. A further mound, which stands on the E side of the group (NG 37925 19227) and measures 10m in diameter, may be natural in origin but there are the remains of three huts on it.
On the W side of the group, 33m from the burn, there is a hut with two compartments, the western measuring 2.3m in diameter internally and 6m overall, and the eastern 4m in diameter over the grass-grown footings of a wall 1m thick and 0.4m high. Two possible shieling mounds, one measuring 6m in diameter, the other 4m, lie on the W side of the burn 10m and 37m respectively NE of the hut. A second hut, which stands on the E side of the burn (NG 37886 19251), measures 2.3m in diameter within a wall reduced to a low spread 1m in thickness. The huts on top of the probably natural mound are all small and have walls reduced to indistinct spreads of stone up to 1 in thickness and 0.4m in height.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (OA, MR) 1 November 2016.
