Monument record 1408 - HECLA, MINGULAY

NL58SE 24 560 825

Remains of a trapezoidal shieling and 3 sub-oval shielings with side chambers.
Visited by OS 30 August 1973.

MY109 (NL56108254) Shieling complex.
Location: Mid hill-slope.
Description: Complex covers an area of approximately 14 x 7 m composed of a main oval hut 109d and a set of smaller huts or storerooms whose walls all cojoin at the rear of the main building. A small shelter appears to have been constructed at a later date inside the small hut 109b.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 105

MY109a (NL56108254) Shieling.
Location: As above.
Description: Oval, 3.5 x 3 m, single cell of earthen and stone wall foundations internally faced with stone, but showing no apparent entrance.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 105

MY109b (NL56108254) Shieling.
Location: As above.
Description: Subrectangular, 4 x 3 m, single cell of earthen and stone walls faced with stone and with no apparent entrance.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 105

MY109c (NL56108254) Shieling.
Location: As above.
Description: Oval, 3 x 2 m, single cell of earthen walls, stone-faced internally and with no apparent entrance. Cojoined to the rear, eastern, wall of the main building.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 105

MY109d (NL56108254) Shieling.
Location: As above.
Description: Oval, 4 x 3.5 m, single cell of earthen walls, partly stone-faced inside, with a south entrance.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 105

MY109e (NL56108254) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Circular, 1.5 m diam., single cell shelter built at a later date inside 109b.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 105

MY109f (NL56108254) Setting.
Location: As above.
Description: Oval, 4 x 2.5 m, group of stones that may be a robbed-out building or a construction of a less substantial structure than the others in the complex.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 105

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