Monument record MHG52833 - Shieling, Cnoc a' Bhaid Bhain (2 of 8)

A complex shieling set on the SE side and beneath the crest of a large grassy knoll, around 5m to the NW of a small burn (Plate 2). It is rectangular in plan, but with a bulbous SW end and a bulbous, interconnected outshot to the NW towards its SW end. It has a 3.5m long, non-interconnecting compartment at its NE end and it measures 10m x 2.5m (tapering to 2m at its NE end) in total and the outshot is 2m long, jutting out from the main building line for 2.5m. A 0.5m wide entrance is situated in the SE wall of the NE compartment. Its low walls of single-skinned football-sized boulders are barely visible, being mostly overgrown with moss and grass and stand <0.3m high. The NW sidewall is partly recessed into the knoll. The long sides of the building trend 68 degrees. This site is one of a group of shieling huts identified during a walkover survey in April 2009. <1>

<1> Lindsay, N, 04/2009, Sallachy North: Loch Shin-side, Parish of Lairg, Sutherland - A Report on an Archaeological Walk-Over Survey, Feature 2 (Text/Report/Fieldwork Report). SHG24183.