Raasay Forest, Raasay
Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Site Name Raasay Forest, Raasay
Classification Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 80271
Site Number NG54NE 7
NGR NG 5759 4595
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/80271
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG54NE 7 5759 4595
Lying on the summit of a birch-covered knoll which lies 100m SW of the sharp bend in the road, about 110m OD is a degraded, boulder built, single cell shieling. The remains measure 6.8m by 3.5m over walls 1.0m wide. There is no obvious entrance. To the W are four small plots of lazy beds and to the S is a small area of rig cultivation with associated clearance cairns.
Visited by I Marshall 26 March 1991.
Miket, R et al.1991; NMRS MS/530.
Site recorded during a survey of the townships of North and South Screapadal plus the surrounding area carried out by the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists (ACFA) in April 1998 as part of a continuing programme of recording the physical remains of human activity on the island of Raasay (Macdonald and Scott Wood 1997).
NG 5760 4592 Shieling.
A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsors: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Glasgow Archaeological Society, CBA Challenge Funding.
J Macdonald and J Scott Wood 1998.
