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MHG66392 - Clearance cairns - North Screapadal, Raasay

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On the hillside between the boat noosts and the track to the forest are four clearance cairns.

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Two townships named North and South Screapadal are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xxiv) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1988).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 October 1996

(NG 581 443) North and South Screapadal: depopulated by 1877.
OS 6"map, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1877)

North Screapadal, a depopulated township, comprises some 17 ruined houses. There are 4 small ruined boat-houses on the seashore.
There are lazy-beds in the area especially upon the higher slopes to the west.
These townships were probably depopulated by Mr Rainy of Edinburgh, who bought the island of Raasay in 1846, sending large numbers of the inhabitants abroad, and to Rona (Information from Miss Nicholson, 'Eilean Tigh', Raasay and from Mr Macleod, shoemaker, Clachan, Raasay).
Visited by OS (A S P) 12 June 1961

Fifteen unroofed buildings and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xxiv). Nineteen unroofed buildings and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1988).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 October 1996

An Archaeological Survey of the townships of North & South Screapadal, with a survey of the surrounding area, on Raasay was undertaken by ACFA in 1998.

On the hillside between the boat noosts and the track to the forest are four clearance cairns, all on north east to south west axes on the side of the hill, falling down the slope.
a) An oval turf covered clearance cairn, with stone protruding, measures 11.1m by 5.2m rising to 1.2m. in height.
b) A cairn 4.5m by 1.9m and height 1.0m
c) A cairn 3.3m by I.Orn and height 0.3m
d) A cairn 8.7m by 2.5m and height 0.3m. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2009 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Not recorded
Map sheet	Not recorded
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	PORTREE

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