Monument record MHG5930 - Allt Suardale

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Grid reference Centred NG 2976 5384 (30m by 30m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG25SE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DUIRINISH

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NG25SE 14 2976 5384.

Situated beside one of the burns that form the headwaters of the Allt Suardale is a group of at least five shieling-mounds. The smallest measures 7m in diameter by 0.6m in height, but the largest, which may well have originated as two separate mounds, measures 16m by 8m and 1m in height. A small oval hut lies immediately S of one of the mounds. (WAT90 1458-62)
Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 24 June 1990.

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  • --- 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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