Monument record MHG4818 - Sluganan

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 2879 5720 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG25NE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DUIRINISH

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Full Description

NG25NE 3 288 572.

At NG 288 572, upon the banks of the Allt Slugain Meadhoin immediately below a small waterfall is a group of 8 large ruined shielings at about 500ft OD.
They are twin-celled, but now reduced to green mounds up to 2.0m in height, two with dry stone walling exposed.
Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/175: 1376-7.
Visited by OS (ASP) 9 May 1961.

There are two buildings and several mounds in this group of shielings, which are situated on the banks of the Allt Slugain Meadhoin at the base of a steep slope, immediately W of a forestry plantation. The building on the N bank, which is built across the slope, measures some 7.5m from E to W by 3.5m transversely within stony banks spread to 2m in thickness and 1m in height. That to the S, occupying a low rise, is surrounded by a bank, providing a space about 2m wide between it and the building, which is itself sub-divided into two unequal compartments. It measures 6.6m from NE to SW by 2.6m transversely within rubble-faced walls 1.2m in thickness and 0.9m in height.
(WAT 90 1003, 1004).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 24 June 1990.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1993. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Waternish, Skye and Lochalsh District, Highland Region: an archaeological survey. .

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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