Monument record 11473 - FEADAN NAN SGRATH, LEWIS

NB33NW 45 3435 3664

What may be a single roofed shieling-huts is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis, Ross-shire 1852, sheet 19), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 5 November 1998.

An archaeological assessment was undertaken in advance of a potential windfarm development at Beinn Mholach and Arnish Moor. A total of 29 areas (over 100 individual sites) of archaeological remains were identified, most of which relate to post-medieval shieling practice, lazy bed cultivation, peat cutting, and to the 19th and 20th-century use of these upland areas. The proposed windfarm development involves two areas of peat moorland in the centre of Lewis. (GUARD 891).
NB 3435 3664
Feadan nan Sgrath
Shieling group.
Full report lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsor: Dulas Ltd
J Hooper 2001
REPORT DATE: 17/06/2002

B109 NB 3435 3664
Feadan nan Sgrath, a single unroofed shieling hut, depicted on the OS 1st edition map (1849-52), but not located on the ground.
A single roofed shieling hut, lying some distance from the north bank of the Feadan nan Sgrath, is shown on the OS 1st edition map.. It is not depicted on the current edition (1972) of the OS maps. On the vertical air photographs from 1989 there is a suggestion of a mounded structure in roughtly the righ location, although it is much closer to the burn than the building indicated on the map.
No building remains or suggestiong of a formerly utilised area were located on the round.
Hooper 2000, 20

Janet Hooper, 2000, Lewis: Project 891 (Bibliographic reference). SWE41076.