MHG4000 - Sheiling Hut - Lag Sletir, Rhum
Summary
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Type and Period (1)
- SHIELING HUT (Post Medieval - 1560 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
- None recorded
Full Description
Incomplete, heath/rough pasture on gentle hillslope with SW aspect at an altitude of 100-110m OD.
SMR card.
On gently sloping ground there are two huts. The larger sets on a shieling mound and has been disturbed by the insertion of a pen; the other has two roughly circular compartments.
Soc An Scot: 1983: Arch Sites & Mons of Rhum: RCAHMS: pp15: Nos 69 & 70.
NM39NW 20 348 960.
There are sheiling groups on either side of a field-dyke linking the Allt Lag Sleitir and the Abhainn Rangail. The N group comprises three huts with attached cells, and two detached cells; the S group contains one rectangular hut with the entrance at the junction of the long and short side, an oval hut, a subrectangular hut with opposed entrances, and an unusual rectangular hut (5.4m by 1.6m internally) with opposed entrances.
Visited by RCAHMS May 1983.
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Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NM 3484 9604 (108m by 100m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NM39NW |
| Civil Parish | SMALL ISLES |
| Geographical Area | LOCHABER |
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External Links (1)
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/21901 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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