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Lochan Chairn Leith
Sheepfold(S) (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Lochan Chairn Leith
Classification Sheepfold(S) (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Sleach Water
Canmore ID 7599
Site Number ND04NE 6
NGR ND 053 450
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7599
- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND04NE 6 053 450.
Area ND 0535 4507. About midway between the Sleach Water and Lochan Chairn Leith is a group of eleven shielings. They consist of low, poorly defined mounds with the out-lines of rectangular foundations on top, also poorly defined and varying in size from about 4m by 3m to 9m by 3.5m. There are one or two similar mounds in the area too poorly defined for survey. On the NE side of the group are the remains of two circular turf-banked sheepfolds, some 14m and 7m in diameter respectively; about 30m W of the larger sheepfold is a small oval enclosure of turf bank construction measuring about 10 by 5m. Some 120m E of this group are another seven shielings of the same character and varying from about 5 by 3 to 13 by 3.5m.
Visited by OS (W D J) 16 April 1961.
(ND 053 450) Old Shielings (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1963)
No change to the previous field report.
Visited by OS (J B) 17 March 1982.
Eight unroofed shieling-huts are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxvii). Twenty unroofed shieling-huts are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 December 1995
