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Field Visit
Date April 1996 - May 1996
Event ID 1007716
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1007716
This is a small enclosure or structure of boulder construction which now appears as a setting 1.5m broad and 0.75m high, enclosing an area, 4.6m by 3.4 m, sub-circular in plan with an opening to the south. There is a small 'alcove' in the interior, to the east of the entrance.
The boulders appear to overlie a sub-rectangular structure of similar proportions, although this may simply be the turf clad foundations of the rubble structure.
To the east is a pair of very slight parallel stone lines, running to the south-east. These stone lines run for 13.0m and are 3.0m apart at the structure and 2.5m apart at the furthest south-east point.
Cobhain Cuildich is commonly known as the ‘Hermit’s Cell' and has been attributed a twelfth century date because of a mistranslation of the Gaelic place-name as 'House of the Culdees'. An accurate translation is 'the remote hollow'. Local recollections suggest the structure is similar to circles which were used for milking cows. The stone walls running away are described as having flanked a trackway (OSA) which ran around a knoll.
(ION96 017)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016