Skye, Allt Slugain Dheas
Boundary Bank (Period Unknown), Shieling Mound(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skye, Allt Slugain Dheas
Classification Boundary Bank (Period Unknown), Shieling Mound(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 71184
Site Number NG25NE 27
NGR NG 2913 5707
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71184
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (24 June 1990)
NG25NE 27 2914 5706.
There are at least two mounds visible on the upper reaches of the Allt Slugain Dheas at the base of a steep slope on the W edge of the forestry plantation. There are traces of a boundary bank alongside the burn, which is a continuation downslope of a bank that runs for at least 1km to the NW (NG 2809 5756) along the natural terrace above the shielings. This bank may be the march dyke of the farm of Slugain and Forse Breitheimh alluded to in a report of May 1789 by Robert Fraser to the British Fisheries Society (SRO GD 9/3 Minutes of the British Fisheries Society, 1786 to 1788, p331).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 24 June 1990.
