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Note
Date 12 November 2014 - 23 May 2016
Event ID 1045722
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045722
This small fortification occupies a craggy hillock that forms a pinnacle rising out of the top of a cone of talus at the foot of the cliffs on the E side of Eigg. The defences comprise a single wall dawn in a rough square around the outcrops, though even the scatter of stones that marks its course on the N and NE peters out on the SE; elsewhere on the NW and SW, around the margins of the terrace that forms the only occupiable space on the hillock, the wall forms a band of rubble about 2.5m in thickness along which a few inner and outer facing-stones are visible. The interior measures about 34m square (0.11ha), but two thirds of this is taken up by the boss of rock that gives the hillock its distinctive profile. The entrance is probably on the SE.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2525
