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Skye, Ben Geary

Shieling Hut (Post Medieval), Shieling Mound(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Skye, Ben Geary

Classification Shieling Hut (Post Medieval), Shieling Mound(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 71463

Site Number NG26SW 14

NGR NG 2408 6135

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Duirinish
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Activities

Field Visit (29 September 1990)

NG26SW 14 2408 6135

There are at least eleven grass-grown shieling-mounds and a shieling-hut situated alongside a burn to the E of Trumpan. An intermittent bank runs along the S side of the burn and overlies at least one of the mounds.

At least four of the mounds are surmounted by traces of huts.

(WAT90 962-973)

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 29 September 1990.

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