Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the farmstead, shieling-huts and rig with fort adjacent, taken from the NE.

Description Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the farmstead, shieling-huts and rig with fort adjacent, taken from the NE.

Date 10/4/2003

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 1699331

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 35399 CN

Scope and Content Struidh and Corragan Mor from the north-east, Eigg, Small Isles, Highland The island of Eigg is one of the Small Isles along with Canna, Rum and Muck. It lies 16km off the west coast of Scotland and has been inhabited since the Neolithic (c.4000-2500 BC). Later inhabitants have left the remains of Bronze Age hut circles, Iron Age forts, early medieval burial cairns, Early Christian crosses, Viking boat stems and 19th-century townships. The island was bought in 1997 by its residents in conjunction with the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Highland Council. This shows a small lochan (top left) and the rocky boss of the Iron Age hillfort known as Corragan Mor (centre top). The landscape below the fort was used as summer grazing for sheep and cattle, before a farmstead with a large walled enclosure and dwelling was built in the 19th century. This was later abandoned, and the area is currently used for grazing once more. A sheiling close to here was mentioned by the writer and geologist Hugh Miller (1802-1856) in 1845. He describes cows drinking from the stream outside and the interior of a hut with: 'a turf fire at one end at which sat two little girls keeping the blaze under a large pot... the other end was occupied by a bed of dry straw spread on the floor... the middle space was occupied by the utensils of the dairy'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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