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MHG2531 - Shieling Hut, Airigh Phuill

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Airigh Phuill (OS 6-inch map, 1962); Airidh a' Phuill (OS 6-inch map, Caithness, 1st ed., sheet 27): The remains of old shieling bothies.
Name Book (Caithness).

ND 1407 4228. On N bank of the Allt a' Phuill, some 200m W of where it enters Loch Ruard, is a group of three shielings consisting of the usual low grassy mounds. That nearest to the burn shows a well defined stone foundation on top, measuring some 10 by 3.5m, divided into three compartments. The other two are very poorly preserved; the easternmost has a faintly defined outline of a rectangular foundation, about 10m by 3 m on top, while the other shows a roughly circular foundation, about 6m in diameter. Two other likely mounds in the area revealed no traces of any foundations on top.
Some 50m back from where the burn enters the loch are the remains of a stone-built rectangular building (about 14 by 5m) divided into four compartments with a small annexe on its S side. The E gable still stands to a height of 1.6m.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 17 April 1961.

No change to the previous field report.
Revised at 1:10560. Visited by OS (JM) 19 October 1982.

Three unroofed shieling-huts and one unroofed building with an attached unroofed structure or outshot are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxvii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 December 1995

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Grid reference	Centred ND 1406 4228 (10m by 10m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND14SW
Civil Parish	LATHERON
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

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