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Field Visit
Date 26 May 1915
Event ID 1104569
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1104569
Earth-house, Glen Bracadale.
In Glen Bracadale, about 7/8 mile west-south-west of Loch Duagrich, at an elevation of 300 feet above sea level, on the right bank of the Glen Bracadale Burn, is a ruined earth-house. This building is situated on a mound of earth and stone apparently partially artificial, and the entrance seems to have been about 6 feet from the bank of the stream. The earth-house has the form of a narrow gallery with drystone walls and lintelled roof about 9 inches under the surface, which runs into the mound in a direction very slightly to the west of north and then curves round regularly to the north-west. The first 6 feet of the walls seem to have been quite destroyed, but for some 26 feet beyond they can be traced, the space between being filled with fallen debris. At two places, some 16 feet and 21 feet 6 inches from where the walls begin, several lintels remain, covering a length of 3 feet and 4 feet 7 inches respectively. The hollow can be traced farther until it dies away in a circular stony mound the centre of which lies some 15 feet from the last lintel. Under one of the lintels the gallery shows a width of 2 feet 6 inches. There seems to have been a rise of about 3 feet in the length of the earth-house.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 26 May 1915.
OS map: Skye xxviii (unnoted).
