project ref : 012
location : Bad Chailleach
grid ref : centred on NG 921 881
category : multi-period landscape with an extensive shieling and BA/IA roundhouses
features : roundhouses, shieling huts, field system, enclosures, walls, banks, dykes
Bad Chailleach
An extensive shieling ground to the west of the Little Gruinard River. This is a field system with the remains of over 20 very small shieling huts scattered around it. Just to the north are two roundhouses and a burnt mound.
An extensive shieling ground to the east of the Little Gruinard River. This is a field system with the remains of over 20 very small shieling huts scattered around. There is evidence of some cultivation but no evidence of any large buildings.
There are two unusual features quite unlike anything else in the area and could possibly be ancient, collapsed burial mounds. The stone used is completely different - red in colour and angular, with some thin slabs set upright at one end.
Just to the north are two roundhouses. Next to one is a burnt mound, forming a pile of heat-cracked stones beside a small burn. Nearby is a short section of ‘dog’s tooth’ wall footings, indicative of a Bronze Age date.
