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Field Visit
Date 30 August 2001
Event ID 1012190
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1012190
This fort is situated upon a roughly triangular, cliff-girt knoll overlooking the island of Rhum to the N and the Bay of Laig to the E. These natural defences are further strengthened by a deep gully on the S, which contains outcropping rocky ridges. The fort measures about 55m from NW to SE by 50m transversely, within cliff edges on the NE and W and grass-grown, faced-rubble walls up to 3m thick and 1m high on the SW and SE. A foundation course emerging from the external face of these walls at a lower level on the SW, produces a funnel-shaped entrance that narrows to about 1m wide. A terraced path ascending the rocky scarp from the gully may once have made for a second entrance roughly centred in the SE wall, while another path approaching via the cliff top on the E heads for an entrance in the gap at the end of this wall that is possibly of relatively recent origin.
The interior of the fort, which consists of broken ground that slopes gently N, contains traces of at least eight circular hut platforms. In addition, there is a later quarry that interrupts access to the SW entrance and traces of further quarrying occur on the ridges within the gully.
(EIGG01 250)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, DCC) 30 August 2001
