The humble sheep has, directly and indirectly, had a profound effect on the landscape of the Highlands and the Hebrides, nowhere more than the Uist archipelago. This pattern of sheep dip, or very similar variants, can be found throughout Uist and Benbecula. The sheep would be lifted into the trough and submerged before allowing it to ‘escape’ onto the flat apron, which woud be enclosed by fencing or hurdles. This would allow excess dip to drip off and run back into the trough, ready to receive the next animal.
This is an unusual example of a house shell conversion. A draining apron has been created outside the northern window opening, the tank wouldbe placed inside the building. Unusually, the dipping tank is a former domestic bath, and has now been ‘dumped’ over tyhe window opening. Both windows have been blocked to use the shell as a sheep pen.
There are two further outbuildings (?sheds) nearby and evidence for Kelping in the bay and on the shoreline.
A range-pole is aligned North-South, red to North.
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