33047: AIRIGHEAN TIGHE DUASTAL, LEWIS – SHIELING (Undated)
Summary:
SHIELING (Undated)
Shielings
Location:
NB 0997 2128
Full description:
NB02SE 1 0997 2128
(NB 099 212) ‘Six shielings, two of which are in ruins…’ Thomas illustrates and plans one of these, still occupied c. 1867.
Name Book 1854; F W L Thomas 1870
Four roofed shieling-huts and two unroofed shieling-huts, which are annotated as Ruins, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1854, sheet 35). Five black dots which may indicate the location of unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 15 July 1997
References:
Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 98, p. 40
1866-8. ‘On the primitive dwellings and hypogea of the Outer Hebrides’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 7. 161-2, fig. 9
Acknowledgement:
Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.
Record Location
Details
- Record Type:
- Historical or Archaeological Site
- Type Of Site:
- Shieling
- SMRRecord ID:
- MWE71052
- Record Maintained by:
- CEU