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MHG11337 - Shieling - Poll Dubharach

Summary

Stell within former shieling.

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NC22SE 8 253 232.

NC 254 233. Shieling.
Home's Survey of Assynt 1774-5.

NC 253 232. Remains of walls or banks, in broken ground, bounding bracken-clad pasture; occasional heaps of cleared stone. Abandoned 19th century. A later sheepfold is present.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JM) 30 July 1980.

Historic Assynt conducted a site visit in November 2015.

Stell within former shieling: On the Kirkton side of the burn, but closer to the mill and associated features at NC 25388 23536 in Eadar a' Chalda, than any other good farmland, is a large shieling ground bounded and partially subdivided by dykes. Some clearance cairns and possible ruined hut foundations are scattered around. Towards the western side on a sloping terrace above the Allt a Chalda Mor a large nineteenth century stell. It is a well built structure 13.50m in internal diameter and parts of it still stand to approx 1.5m including the remains of its turf capping. The walling is battered both internally and externally and appears to be gradually collapsing outwards. The entrance on the south side has largely collapsed as have a number of sections of higher walling. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 2539 2329 (243m by 218m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC22SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	ASSYNT

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