Monument record 1394 - MINGULAY

NL58SE 11 5651 8213.

NL 5651 8213:- Situated on gently sloping ground are the remains of a small rectangular bothy or shieling overlying a revetted oval platform measuring 10.5m NE- SW by 7.5m. About 15m to the S is a similar turf- covered platform with no overlying structure.
While the bothy is clearly a secondary structure, it is possible that these two platforms are the sites of houses (see NL58SE 10).
Visited by OS (D W R) 30 August 1973.

MY194 (56518213) Complex of roundhouse and shieling.
Location: Lower hill-slope.
Description: Rectangular shieling with stone-faced, earth-filled walls, standing many courses high. The building stands on a circular mound, 10 m diam., with a small circular stone setting on its northern side.
Note: Excavated: site report in volume 6 forthcoming.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 109

MY194a (NL56518213) Roundhouse.
Location: As above.
Description: Circular, 10 m diam., revetted mound, but excavation has shown that the mound is formed by an internal stone-faced wall of which the revetting of the mound is the outer face. Not enough of the structure was revealed to determine its true form and function. A later shieling hat was constructed on the upper levels.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 109 - 110

MY194b (NL56518213) Shieling.
Location: As above.
Description: A substantially built rectilinear, 4 x 3 m, single cell with upstanding stone-faced walls filled with earth. A doorway faces the sea to the south-east, but was partly filled, as was the interior, with fallen stone and earth. The work as a whole was set on a stone-revetted mound of an earlier construction. On the northern side is a small circular setting of stone and downslope is a further stone-revetted mound on a platform, but without any crowning structure. The southern half of the building was excavated and found to contain, under the fallen infill of stone and earth, a thick laminated deposit representing a long sequence of peat fires. The back wall of an earlier building was revealed, the fire deposits rested immediately upon it flowing down into the hollow of the interior. For some reason the walls of the lower building had not been utilized as a foundation and the later shieling hut had been constructed partly in and partly over the earlier walls. The interior of the earlier building had obviously been visible as a hollow and this had been used to give shelter inside for the occupants and their fireplace. Dating evidence for the upper building rests on a sherd of 19th-century china. The earlier deposits and structures were not disturbed.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 110

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