Raasay Forest, Raasay
Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Site Name Raasay Forest, Raasay
Classification Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 80272
Site Number NG54NE 8
NGR NG 5755 4602
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/80272
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG54NE 8 5755 4602
Approximately 60m SW of the road in an area of bracken and grass and about 110m OD is a very degraded single cell rectangular shieling. The remains measure 3m by 3.5m and a possible entrance is visible in the W corner. Just outside the S wall is an overgrown circular stone setting which measures c.2.0m in diameter.
Visited by A McNicol 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 5756 4602 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.
