Monument record MHG34360 - GLEANN MADAGAIN

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NN69NW 10 6189 9858

There are at least eleven shieling-huts disposed in a line along the banks of the Allt Madagain for a distance of 400m NW from its confluence with the Allt Feith an t-Seilich; another hut (and possibly a second) stands slightly apart from the main group, beside the ruins of a more recent bothy on the S bank of the latter burn. The huts of the main group are mostly rectangular or subrectangular in plan and have grassed-over rubble walls up to 0.8m thick and generally no more than 0.4m high. They measure internally from 2.2m to 6.4m in length and 1.3m to 3.1m in breadth. Additional features include: two huts (KING95 11 and 15) with an outshot at one end, a small pen to the SE of another (KING95 19) and a low mound, probably a midden, outside the entrance to yet another (KING95 15).
The outlying hut (KING95 22) is situated at NN 6196 9842, immediately W of the recent bothy (KING95 23), on the S bank of the Allt Feith an t-Seilich and about 70m SW of the confluence of the two burns. The hut measures 3.5m from E to W by 2.9m transversely within a stony bank 0.6m in thickness and up to 0.3m in height; to the W there are traces of another possible hut, measuring 5m by 2m within a bank spread to 1.1m in thickness. The bothy measures 3.2m from E to W by 2m transversely within stone footings. Iron uprights protrude from the footings, sawn off at a height of 1m, and the rotting timbers scattered around this shell are presumably the remains of the walls. A fireplace survives in the E end wall.
Several huts are depicted at this location on George Brown's 1771 map of the Gordon estates on the N side of the River Spey (SRO RHP 1835) and annotated 'Bothies of Dalnashalg'. At that time this land lay within the Davoch of Clun and was held in feu by a Mr McPherson of Banchor (SRO CR8/195). The recent bothy at the mouth of the Allt Feith an t-Seilich is depicted roofless on the 1992 edition of the OS 1:10,000 scale map.
(KING95 11-23)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 5 September 1995