Monument record MHG6590 - Unish

Renumbered from NG26NW0001Q
JHooper, 28/11/2001

NG26NW 1.06 2406 6602.

This farmstead which comprises two buildings and an enclosure is situated immediately below a rocky N-facing terrace, which forms the back of the enclosure, itself attached to the more westerly of the two buildings. This sub-rectangular building measures 6.7m from NE to SW by 3.98m transversely and stands 1.5m in height within walls 1.1m in thickness. The entrance is in the NE end, but there is a butt-joint in the middle of the NW side, and the trace of an earlier phase extending as a stony bank 1m to the SW. The SW end has apparantly been shortened and rebuilt as far as the original entrance in the NW side. About 5m to the NE is a second building whose W and S walls have been incorporated into a later field-bank which are well preserved, but the E and N end are much reduced. It measures 13m from NE to SW by 4.4m transversely within walls up to 1.5m in height, and where best preserved 1.1m thick. A drain,which appears to be part of an earlier phase of cultivation runs down the W side with a much reduced bank running off from the NE corner which appears to be part of an earlier phase of cultivation. Both buildings are depicted as unroofed on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1902 (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire 1902), but only the W building is depicted, unroofed, on the first edition (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire 1877).
Between 60m and 80m to the ESE are four stone-walled huts of which the two to the W are built against a field-bank.
(WAT90 273-276)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 14 November 1990.