Gleann Bianasdail
Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Pen (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Site Name Gleann Bianasdail
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Pen (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 118767
Site Number NH06NW 4
NGR NH 0157 6618
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/118767
- Council Highland
- Parish Gairloch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH06NW 4 0157 6618
On a terrace on a S-facing slope at the SW end of Gleann Bianasdail, beside the footpath to the summit of Slioch, there are the bracken-covered remains of a hut-circle, overlain by a shieling-hut and a small pen. The hut-circle measures 8.6m in diameter within a wall spread to 1.3m thick. No outer face is evident, but parts of the inner face survive, especially on the W and N, consisting of edge-set sandstone blocks up to 0.6m high, while a robber trench marks the line of that face on the S and E. Within the hut-circle there are the footings of a subrectangular shieling-hut, aligned NNW-SSE, and immediately beyond the robbed SSE arc of the hut-circle there is a small pen constructed of large stones.
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 30 March 1997