Monument record MHG6566 - Allt Nam Maighdean

NG25SE 11.01 277 520.

A total of seven mounds, three stone-walled huts, a building and an enclosure are scattered along both sides of the Allt nam Maighdean from a small cluster of three, immediately E of the road to Waternish, down to its confluence with the Bay River. The enclosure (WAT90 903), 12.7m in length by 7.5m in breadth, occupies a cleft cut in the river terrace by an old stream course to the N of the burn. The rocky sides of the cleft form the N and E sides and a stone wall the S and W. The building (WAT90 898), which is unroofed on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire, 1880, xv) sits on the S bank of the burn; it measures 6.9m in length by 2.9m in breadth within rubble-faced walls 1.3m in thickness and 0.75m in height. A bank runs off to the SE from its SW corner.
The shieling-mounds are mostly oval and vary in size from 1.9m to 9.2m in length and from 1.9m to 5.5m in breadth and stand up to 1m in height. The most impressive are found in the cluster of shielings to the E of the road, which comprises two mounds with stone structures on top, standing 0.7m and 1m in height respectively, and two huts, of similar size, the largest 2.6m in length and 1.9m in breadth within rubble-faced walls 1.1m in thickness and 0.6m in height. All but two of the rest are situated at the base of the terrace some 25m apart, between the road and the river-terrace of the Bay River.
(WAT90 898-905, 910-913)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 16 November 1990.