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MHG66424 - Shieling hut - Screapadal, Raasay

Summary

An oval single celled structure 4m by 2m on an east west axis.

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Site recorded during a survey of the townships of North and South Screapadal plus the surrounding area carried out by the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists (ACFA) in April 1998 as part of a continuing programme of recording the physical remains of human activity on the island of Raasay (Macdonald and Scott Wood 1997).
NG 5776 4459 Shieling.
NG 5776 4460 Shieling.
NG 5777 4460 Shieling.
NG 5774 4447 Shieling.
NG 5776 4447 Shieling.
NG 5776 4444 Shieling.
A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsors: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Glasgow Archaeological Society, CBA Challenge Funding.
J Macdonald and J Scott Wood 1998

ACFA's site 26 from 1991 lay in a very difficult, boulder strewn terrace at the foot of a scree slope, to the south of the Screapadal Burn and about 100m above the head-dyke on the 130m contour. A group of hitherto unreported structures were found and these are noted first below. However not all of the 1991 sites recorded could be positively identified in the tumble from the scree.

Feature d; Shieling hut. On the edge of the terrace, [ACFA's 26(4)] was an oval single celled structure 4m by 2m on an east west axis with a possible entrance to the south east. The walls were mainly of stone with a little turf, standing to 0.5m high with tumble in the middle.<1>

NGR adjusted based on 2023 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 5773 4447 (9m by 9m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG54SE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	PORTREE

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