Skye, Camas Lagan, Greshornish Point
Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Skye, Camas Lagan, Greshornish Point
Classification Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 71191
Site Number NG35NW 2
NGR NG 34554 56018
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71191
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (21 August 1990)
NG35NW 2 3455 5601.
What are probably the remains of a shieling-hut are situated at the foot of a N-facing crag due S of Camas Lagan. It comprises a small enclosure, measuring 5.7m by 3.5m internally, with cells opening off on the W and the S. The S cell, which was probably entered through a lintelled creep, is full of rubble, but the W cell is clearly defined and measures 2.4m by 1.8m internally. Around the S side of the enclosure, where it has been let into the scree of fallen boulders below the crag, its wall forms a revetment 1m high, but elsewhere it consists of a bank some 1.4m in thickness with an internal stone face. There are also traces of a small hut immediately to the NE.
(WAT90 1470)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 21 August 1990.
