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MHG6112 - Allt Na Beinne Creagaich

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NG25SE 8.13 274 526.

There is a group of six shielings scattered over 350m along the banks of the Allt na Beinne Creagaich, all of which lie within a field-system of two fields, enclosing a block of land in the valley bottom and on the hillside to the E of the Bay River (see NG25SE 8.14). The public road to Waternish cuts through the fields, which display faint traces of rig cultivation.
The easternmost shieling, a subrectangular enclosure, is situated on a natural knoll on the N bank of the burn. It measures 5m from E to W by 3.5m transversely within stony banks spread to 1.5m in thickness, and there is a cell, 2m across, attached to the E end (WAT90 925). The other enclosure (WAT90 929), which is situated on a promontory at the S side of the confluence of the burn with the Bay River, measures 13m by 12m. The N and W sides have fallen away, but an arc of a bank survives to the E and S. Both of the huts are attached to the field-bank. That to the W (WAT90 928), not far from the Bay River, is attached to the N side of the bank, but has been reduced by robbing to a low stony perimeter 2.8m in length by 2.6m in breadth. That to the E (WAT90 926) is built against the S side of the field-bank, immediately E of the public road, on the N bank of the Allt na Beinne Creagaich. It measures 3m in length by 1.5m in breadth within rubble-faced walls 1.1m in thickness and 0.6m in height, and there is an entrance in the S side. The two mounds lie about 100m apart in the lower part of the field, S of the Allt na Beinne Creagaich. Both are dimpled on top and measure about 5.5m in length by 3.5m in breadth, but that to the E (WAT90 927) has been reduced by rig cultivation. Within a short distance of the latter mound is another low grassy mound, also ridged, which may have been a shieling-mound. (WAT90 925-930)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 16 November 1990.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 2739 5260 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG25SE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	DUIRINISH

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