Little Loch Shin
Classifications: Crannog(Period Unassigned) (Possible, Plural)
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Little Loch Shin, NC50NE 79, Ordnance Survey index card, pag…
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Location Details
Local authority: Highland
Parish: Lairg
Former region: Highland
Former district: Sutherland
Former county: Sutherland
Further details
Site number: NC50NE 79
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 5054
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Little Loch Shin, NC50NE 79, Ordnance Survey index card, pag…
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
1 Note
Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 648856
NC50NE 79 5806.
RCAHMS (1911) suggests that four islands on Loch Shin (NC 52 12) are possibly artificial and their appearance supports this suggestion. Gordon, in 1630, wrote, 'In sundrie of these laikes ther ar ilands with habitations, as in Loch Shin ... There are four islands in Loch Shin ... all pleasant dwellings in summer' (NC50NE 15 may be one of these).
R Gordon 1813; RCAHMS 1911; F O Blundell 1913.
The level of Loch Shin has been raised about 10.0 m, therefore any crannog here would be submerged. However Little Loch Shin (located at NC 58 06) is at more or less the original level; the island illustrated by Blundell (1913) is in fact Eilean a'Chairn a probable crannog at NC 5769 0685 (See NC50NE 15). Of the other two islets in Little Loch Shin at NC 5813 0633 and NC 581 055, both appear natural.
Visited by OS (N K B) 3 September 1976.
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References
Blundell F O. (1913) 'Further notes on the artificial islands in the Highland area', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 47 1912-13 Page(s): 281-82
Gordon R. (1813) Genealogical history of the Earldom of Sutherland - 1630-1813,
RCAHMS. (1911a) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland, Edinburgh. Page(s): 160, No. 466 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.1.INV(2)
