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Skye, Braigh Skulamus
Field System (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Braigh Skulamus
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 11579
Site Number NG62SE 4
NGR NG 660 218
NGR Description centred on NG 660 218
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11579
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG62SE 4 centred on 660 218
(previously recorded as NG62SE 25) NG 657 219 Deserted settlement (listed, no details given).
ACFA 1993.
(NG 660 218) Braigh Skulamus shown as a township in 1824 (Information from W Johnson's Map of Skye, 1824) nearly depopulated by 1901 (OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed.) totally deserted by 1955 (OS 1"map, 7th series)
This township, situated on terraces on a NE facing slope about 200'
OD., comprises some 24 ruined houses and outbuildings, with yards and enclosures. No lazy beds were noted and this is probably an early 'improvements' township.
Visited by OS (C F W) 20 June 1961
NG 648 223 - NG 662 215 As a follow-up to the survey undertaken by Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists in the Broadford to Ord area (ACFA 1993), a detailed field survey was undertaken by students in the 2nd year of thye Glasgow University Certificate in Field Archaeology course, in the hinterland to the S of Harrapool and SW of Skulamus. Over fifty rectangular to sub-rectangular buildings were recorded, varying in building material from turf to stone, together with associated small enclosures, field banks, rig cultivation and sheep-washes, indicative of pre- and post- clearance land use.
Sponsor: DACE, University of Glasgow
L Masters 1995
Five unroofed buildings (centred on NG 657 220), a sheepfold and a field-system are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xlvi). Twenty-seven unroofed buildings, including a second grouping (centred on NG 660 218), the field-system, a sheep wash and a sheepfold are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1986).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 December 1996
External Reference (2011)
Some of the buildings are shown on Stobie's map of 'Harrapool and the surrounding area' from 1766 . More buildings are shown on the Blackadder map of 1811 (both maps in Clan Donald Archives, Armadale and on the Am Baile website www.ambaile.org.uk. The township is also recorded on Johnson's map of Skye, 1824. The remains of the buildings can be seen from Google Earth photographs.
Information from the ARCH Community Timeline course, 2011
