Monument record MHG39464 - Turf Bank, Sleach Water

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 0530 4500 (30m by 30m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND04NE
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish HALKIRK
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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About midway between Sleach Water and Lochan Chairn Leith is a group of eleven shielings. They consist of low, poorly defined mounds with the out-lines of rectangular foundations on top, also poorly defined and varying in size from about 4m by 3m to 9m by 3.5m. There are one or two similar mounds in the area too poorly defined for survey. On the NE side of the group are the remains of two circular turf-banked sheepfolds, some 14m and 7m in diameter respectively; about 30m W of the larger sheepfold is a small oval enclosure of turf bank construction measuring about 10 by 5m. Some 120m E of this group are another seven shielings of the same character and varying from about 5 by 3 to 13 by 3.5m.
Visited by OS (W D J) 16 April 1961.

(ND 053 450) Old Shielings (NAT) OS 6" map, (1963)

No change. Visited by OS (J B) 17 March 1982.

Eight unroofed shieling-huts are depicted on 1st edition of OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxvii). 20 unroofed shieling-huts are shown on current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Info from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 December 1995

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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