Monument record MHG12132 - Meall Dearg

NC25NW 2 240 586.

NC 238 586. Depopulation. A group of six huts with earth and stone walls, 1 ft in maximum height, set on low, grassy mounds about 150 yds N of the shore of the loch. Two are round, 7 ft and 10 ft in diameter, two are rectangular, 14 ft by 9 ft and 18 ft by 9 ft, one is oval 13 ft by 9 ft, and of the other only slight traces remain. Thirty yards to the S is a well-constructed oval hut, 18 ft by 10 ft with a wall 3 ft to 4 ft thick and stone protrusions on either side of the entrance, which is in the W wall. South of this, but the burn, is a hut 16 ft by 9 ft with an entrance in the E, and on the other side of the burn are the foundations of a possible hut, 20 ft by 8 ft, in the lee of a large rock. A second group of better-constructed huts, with walls up to 2 ft high, lies on mounds on the shore. One oval hut, 18 ft by 8 ft, and with an entrance in the SSE has traces of two more huts to the E and below. Two huts are rectangular, 20 ft by 8 ft, built into a mound, and 15 ft by 8 ft. There are traces of two huts by the shore.
T C Welsh 1969.

Centred on NC 240 586 are the earth or stone footings of at least 15 shielings, rectangular to oval in shape, and measuring from 4.0m by 3.0m to 6.0m by 4.0m. Some of the footings surmount turf-covered mounds, the residue of collapsed earlier shielings.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 30 May 1980.