Monument record MHG33354 - Meall na h-Uamh, Loch Moidart

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Grid reference Centred NM 6902 7319 (20m by 20m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM67SE
Civil Parish ARISAIG AND MOIDART
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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A shelter or 'packman's bivvy' used by travellers in the Moidart area in the past. The wares they sold were usually article of haberdashery, which were slung over the shoulder in a pack or bundled together in a handkerchief. A crude drystone wall about 2 ft 6 inches high built out from the cave-wall to form a protective screen across part of the mouth of the cave.
Scottish Studies, Issue No. 2, pp. 243-245, June 1957
J Aitken : 09/06/04
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Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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