Monument record MHG50904 - Inverarish Burn

NMRS Report: (25/06/2007 14:45:48)
NG53NE 219 5662 3730

NG 5662 3730 Kerb Cairn with Shieling. The cairn is set on a steep south facing, heather covered slope and is an oval shaped spread of stones 8m long from north to south and 6m wide. There is little doubt that this was a small kerbed cairn into which a shieling was inserted many millennia later taking advantage of the dry raised base and abundant supply of building materials it afforded.
Some 40m to 50m to the west is a two compartment shieling lying sheltered from the prevailing wind under a large rocky outcrop.
Site identified during an archaelogical survey on Raasay by the ACFA.
Anne Wood and Scott Wood, 2004.