Monument record 8731 - SY32 SANDRAY

SY32 (NL63349150) Complex of roundhouse and shieling.
Location: Valley floor.
Description: Circular thick wall of a roundhouse overlain by shieling hut and barn.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 70

SY32a (NL63349150) Roundhouse.
Location: As above.
Description: Large single circular stone-faced wall, 10 m diam. and 1 m wide without visible internal divisions. Entrance to the east with northern arm of ring-wall turning and extending to the east. This site, like so many others, may require excavation to fully understand its structural history and function. The shieling could be many other things such as a byre or Sandray-style cleit, but its modern date is not in doubt. The roundhouse consists of a metre-side double stone-faced wall and has no internal structures visible. There also appears to be a small annexe and a slightly narrower wall leading off from the entrance, features that are unusual for a roundhouse. The possibility that this structure is not a house but an enclosure associated with the shieling around which it is constructed cannot be ruled out.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 70

SY32b (NL63349150) Shieling.
Location: As above.
Description: A substantially built single subrectangular house, 4.5 x 3 m, with stone-faced, 0.85 m thick walls and an entrance to the east.
Note: Overlies the southern part of the roundhouse entrance.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 71

SY32c (NL63349150) Store.
Location: As above.
Description: Mass of large rock slabs in formless setting on south side of shieling house.
Note: overlies possible annexe to roundhouse.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 71

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ... (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.