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Field Visit

Date July 1974

Event ID 1167689

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1167689

NR 226 695. This island, which is situated in a small loch in barren moorland, is probably of artificial origin. It was formerly linked to the E shore by a causeway about 25m long and 2m wide, now represented by scattered boulders. The island is roughly circular, having a diameter of about 25m, and it is enclosed by a drystone wall, varying in thickness from 2m to 3m which in the E sector is preserved to a height of 2.2m. In the NE sector the wall curves inwards to form an entrance-passage, probably associated with a former boat-inlet, and there were other entrances in line with the causeway and in the SW sector. Within the perimeter wall there are the remains of two round-angled buildings whose drystone walls survive to a height of about 1.1m. The larger of these measures 6.5m from NW to SE by about 3.5m transversely within walls having a maximum thickness of 1.3m, and has opposed entrances in the side-walls. The smaller building, which measures 3.6m from NNE to SSW by about 2m transversely, has a single entrance in the NNE end-wall. No documentary references to the island have been identified, but the character of the defensive wall suggests that it belongs to the late medieval period.

RCAHMS 1984, visited July 1974

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