Skye, An Crocan

The remains of five shieling huts and five shieling mounds form a cluster that lies on undulating rocky moorland between an area of flat boggy area to the NW and steep sea-cliffs to the SE. On the NW edge of the group there is a line of three grass-grown mounds ranging in diameter from 3.2m to 4.5m and up to 0.3m in height. At about the centre of the cluster there is a hut containing two compartments (NG 38551 19322). The larger of the two compartments is on the S and measures 3.2m from NW to SE by 2m transversely within a wall up to 1.5m thick and with its inner face surviving up to four courses high. What may be the remains of an entrance are visible on the NE. There is a smaller compartment to the NW which measures about 2m across within walls 0.7m high. There is a possible ruined lambing pen immediately SE of the hut and the remains of a simple hut lie about 9m to the SW. The five shieling mounds, the largest measuring 8m from E to W by 5m transversely and 0.3m in height, form the SE side of the cluster.

Visited by HES Survey and Recording (OA, MR) 1 November 2016.