Monument record MHG34675 - ALLT GLAS DHOIRE

During a desk-based assessment exercise in advance of a proposed afforestation scheme at Glen Spean by the Centre for Archaeology in 1998 elements of a pre-improvement settlement were identified from aerial photographic coverage and confirmed by ground survey. Two structures lay to either side of an unnamed minor tributary of Allt Glas Dhoire. That to the west (NN 3133 8438) was rectilinear, measuring 10 m by 7 m over a grassed boulder wall 1 m wide and 0.2 m high: this feature was open-ended to the east, and thus probably an enclosure rather than a building. On the east side of the burn lay a small, mainly turf-built, rectilinear structure or shieling (NN 3136 8439): it was orientated east-west, measuring 6 m by 4 m externally and 3 m by 2 m internally, with walls standing 0.3 m high. The summit, and south and west slopes, of a distinct knoll immediately east of these features were covered in cultivation rigs with a wave amplitude of 4 m. At one point within the rigs (NN 3152 8434) a cluster of stones may have indicated the presence of a further structure. <1>