Monument record 2011 - BAGH BAN, SANDRAY

NL69SW 34 6454 9248 and 6454 9245

SY 58: (NL 6454 9248) Traces of oval boulder-built hut, 5.5m long, and rectangular hut 4m square to N. Also in the area are: SY 59 at NL 6448 9248: traces of a subrectangular stone hut, 2 x 1m, (SY 61) at NL 6451 9245: oval stone hut, 4 x 3.5m, of orthostat and boulder construction.
Associated with these huts is a semi-circular clearnce cairn at NL 6454 9245 (SY 57) 3m in diameter, and (SY 60). Remains of a rectangular stone setting, 2 x 1.5m, at NL 6449 9246.
NMRS MS/595/6, 12

SY57 (NL64549245) Cairn (clearance).
Location: Low coastal plateau.
Description: Semi-circular, 3 x 3 m, mounded earth and stone.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 72

SY58 (NL64549248) Shieling complex.
Location: Low coastal plateau with much denuded bedrock. Set close to stream.
Description: Two indistinct rounded subrectangular huts.
Note: Structure disarranged.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 72

SY58a (NL64549248) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Rounded subrectangular single cell, 7.6 x 4.8 m, not well defined..
Note: Active erosion.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 72

SY58b (NL64549248) Shelter.
Location: As above.
Description: Rounded subrectangular single cell, 1.8 x 0.8 m to the north-west of shelter (a).
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 72

SY59 (NL64489247) Shelter.
Location: Low coastal plateau.
Description: Subrectangular indistinct single cell, 2 x 1.5 m, on small mound.
Note: Severe erosion, only north corner of wall well-defined.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 72

SY60 (NL64499244) Shelter.
Location: Low coastal plateau on grassy shelf.
Description: A few spaced stones suggest an indistinct single cell, 2 x 1.5 m, oval structure.
Note: Severe erosion.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 72

SY61 (NL64509242) Shelter.
Location: Low coastal plateau.
Description: A disarranged collection of spaced stones suggest an oval structure, 3.5 x 3 m, but a few upright stones stand to 0.70 m.
Note: Also possibly a cairn.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 72

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