33094: AIRIGH A’ BHEALAICH, LEWIS – SHIELING (Undated)
Summary:
SHIELING (Undated)
Shielings recorded in Name Book, and shown on 1st ed OS map 1853
Location:
NB 181 246
Full description:
NB12SE 9 181 246
Two shielings, built of peat moss sods and stones, inhabited for about six weeks in the summer.
Name Book 1851.
(The OS 1:10,000 map of 1973 shows the name, but no detail, at NB 181 246).
Three unroofed shieling-huts are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1853, sheet 31), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 13 August 1997
References:
Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Ross-shire, No. 86, p. 55
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:
- MWE74702
- Record Maintained by:
- CEU