Monument record 8738 - SY68 SANDRAY

SY68 (NL64189225) Complex of blackhouse and shelter.
Location: Peat-covered plateau shelf over-looking gully of Allt Mhuilinn.
Description: Sub-rectangular, 5 x 2.5 m, unimproved blackhouse with later shelter built inside.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73

SY68a (NL64189225) Blackhouse.
Location: As above.
Description: The building is masked to some extent by displaced stone and has been subject to reuse as a shelter (B) that was built on top of one half of the partly deconstructed house. The underlying house appears to be a subrectangular single cell, approximately 5 x 2.5 m, unimproved blackhouse with thin walls c. 0.50 m thick and possibly opposing doorways north and south. Building blocks in 1.5 - 0.8 m range. These dimensions are more suitable for a shieling hut, but may be all that a single shepherd of the post-clearance phase would require.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73

SY68b (NL64189225) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Mass of reused tumbled stone in squared construction, 1 x 1 m, forms single cell shelter inside eastern half of house.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 73

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