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Suisgill Burn

Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Suisgill Burn

Classification Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 72624

Site Number NC92NW 5

NGR NC 9055 2694

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Kildonan
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Activities

Field Visit (22 May 1961)

NC92NW 5 905 269.

NC 9055 2694: The footings of two shieling bothies each measuring 7m by 2.5m with turf-covered stone walls 0.2m high and a small subcircular compartment at the E end. The remains of an earth and stone dyke partially encloses the site on the W.

Visited by OS (JLD) 22 May 1961.

Old Shieling [NAT]

OS 6-inch map, 1963

Field Visit (8 April 1991)

There are at least seven shieling-huts situated on a series of terraces to the E of the confluence of the Allt na Beiste with the Suisgill Burn. A bank, partially depicted on the current edition of the OS 6" map (OS 1:10560 map 1963) encloses the terraces, on which faint traces of cultivation ridges can be seen. What may be two further huts are situated to the NW on either side of the Allt na Beiste.

(KILD91 171-178, 394)

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 8 April 1991.

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