Monument record MHG28506 - Preas nan Sgiathanach

NC60NE 55 6872 0974

About 200m NNE of Preas nan Sgiathanach, on the NW side of a small burn and at the SE edge of the area enclosed by the head-dyke described under NC61SE 15, there is a group of at least six subrectangular turf-built shieling-huts, with a later building a short distance to the E. The huts are situated in flat, often marshy ground, and they are overgrown with grass and rushes. Although only six huts were recorded, there are fragmentary traces of other structures around them. The huts measure between 4m and 9.7m in length and between 2.2m and 2.5m in breadth within walls 0.5m to 0.6m thick, now standing 0.3m high at most. The largest hut (ROG95 487) is divided into two compartments and has an outshot on the NW side. The building (ROG95 491) is situated on the W side opposite bank of the burn at NC 6880 0974. It measures 11.6m by 3.2m within faced-rubble walls 0.65m thick and 0.3m high. It may have had an entrance on the SSE side.
A group of eleven huts are depicted on the NW side of the burn on a plan of Langwell, possibly by David Aitken and drawn up ca.1770 (National Library of Scotland 10225/136-8), and described as 'Sheillings of Reemusick' (Remusaig - see NC 70SW 129 at NC 7372 0268). The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcvi) shows nothing of the huts, but it does depict the (roofred) stone building on the opposite bank.
(ROG95 485-491)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 3 July 1995