Field Visit
Date 11 May 2007
Event ID 584350
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/584350
A platform and a cluster of fifteen cleits are situated to the SE of the summit of Claigeann an Tigh Faire. The platform is annotated as a Hut Circle on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map and is oval on plan measuring 8.5m from N to S by 5.5m transversely; it appears to be set 2m into the slope on the W. There is no trace of any structural component on the surface of the platform, only small exposures of outcrop along its E edge, and on the N the ground rises gradually onto rock. Though a very distinctive feature, there is no reason to suppose that this platform is anything other than a natural terrace.
The cleits are strung out along the brow of the steep grass slope above the cliff and all but one (Hirta 288) stand to the SW of the head dyke. Thirteen retain all or part of their roofs and turf caps, the remaining two now roofless and ruinous.
(Hirta 274-88)
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW) 11 May 2007
