Monument record MHG705 - Shieling Hut, Torran Lean

Gr corrected to: Bothan Gorm (in ruins) building marked on 1st ed OS 25". This is the most northerly 0f 4 buildings depicted on modern OS. - HAW 8/2004

ND05SE 6 059 537.
Centred ND 0590 5367. On the S side of the new road from Dorrery Lodge to Cnoc-glas and 240m E of the bridge over the Torran Water are the remains of four shielings. They consist, in the main, of mutilated earth-and-stone mounds with the outlines of rectangular structures varying from 4 by 3m to 9 by 4m on top.
Visited by OS (W D J) 6 April 1961.

(ND 059 537) Old Shielings (NAT) OS 6" map, (1964)

No change to the previous field report.
Revised at 1/10,000. Visited by OS (J M) 10 July 1981.

Four unroofed shieling-huts are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963). Only one of these is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xvii).
Info from RCAHMS (SAH) 29 November 1995