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Field Visit
Date 6 July 1925
Event ID 1105473
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105473
Earth-houses.
On the southern slope of Beinn Tighe, just below the summit of a grassy knoll facing south-east, are two small earth-houses, and others probably remain unexposed near by. The two that have been opened have been driven into the hillside, one below the other at a distance of 20 feet apart. In each there is a narrow entrance about 18 inches broad opening in a lintelled space, 5 feet broad in one house, 3 feet in the other, in which are lintelled recesses just large enough for a person to squat in. These earth houses are smaller and much less intricate than any met with in the outer isles.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 6 July 1925.
OS map: Island of Canna (Inverness-shire) liii and liv (unnoted).
