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Field Visit
Date May 1978
Event ID 1167727
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1167727
NR 425 688. This low grass-covered island is situated close to the former sw shore of the partly-drained Loch nan Deala. It is roughly circular, varying between 23m and 26m in diameter, and there are traces of a rubble causeway 25m in length and 2m wide linking the island to the original shoreline. The N half of the island is occupied by the remains of two conjoined drystone buildings (A and B) which together form an overall L-plan bicameral structure, and there is a smaller detached structure (C) in the SE sector. A 4m length of facing-block on the s side of the island may represent part of either: fourth building or a perimeter wall. A slight depression in the NW sector appears to mark the position of the main entry.
Building A is oblong on plan measuring 7m axially from NE to SW by 3m transversely within round-angled walls 1m in average thickness. There is a 1.Om-wide doorway in the centre of the SE side-wall, and vestiges of another possible opening in the SW end-wall. Building B forms an oblong NW annexe, measuring approximately 5m along the same axis by 3m within round-angled walls varying in thickness between 1.0m and 1.5m. There is an entrance in the s angle. Building C is a small oblong structure whose internal dimensions are 2.5m from E to W by 2m transversely; the round-angled wall are slightly less than 1m in thickness and there is a narrow entrance in the E wall.
The site has no recorded history, but these remains are of a general type that may tentatively be ascribed to the later medieval or sub-medieval period.
RCAHMS 1984, visited May 1978.
