Monument record 2134 - ALLT LOCH NAN EANG, HARRIS

NB20NW 2 204 077.

Fieldwalking within an area to the W of Loch Seaforth revealed two sites of interest located along the banks of the Allt Loch Nan Eang.
Site 1 comprised a small stone structure - probably the remains of a shieling - built on a knoll and measuring approximately 4.9m by 3.7m over drystone rubble walls. At one end of its interior was a possible bed platform.
Site 2 sat on what appeared to be a low, natural mound and included a single-skin drystone wall enclosing three sides of a rectangle, slightly sunken and measuring 3.7m by 2.0m. To its W was a roughly circular, hollow mound of boulders; perhaps the remains of a kiln although it seems unlikely that grain had been grown in the vicinity. The remains of another possible shieling, circular in shape and 4m in external diameter, stood nearby. Beyond it stood a length of walling, incorporating some very large stones, which ran 5m towards the stream and extended along its edge.
Sponsor: RMC Roadstone Products Limited.
J Terry and S Hothersall 1994.

J and S Terry and Hothersall, 1994, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 94 (Bibliographic reference). SWE34020.