Field Visit
Date 3 September 2008
Event ID 588679
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/588679
This group extends from NF 10100 99656 to NF 10466 99635 (from Hirta 993 in the W to Hirta 1001 in the E) and from NF 10267 99745 to NF 10327 99468 (from Hirta 1016 in the N to Hirta 998 in the S). It comprises forty nine cleits, six peat stands and two mounds, both of which may also be the remains of collapsed cleits. The group stretches across the relatively flat ground above the Village Bay head dyke to the NW of the Dry Burn and onto the lower slopes of Conachair. Much of the flat ground has been stripped back to bedrock and here the cleits have been heavily robbed, remaining as little more than footings. The cleits on the lower slopes of Conachair are better preserved, most retaining some if not all of their roof lintels, many too with fragments of their turf caps.
(Hirta 993-1016, 2016-39, 2177, 2180, 2211, 2215, 2231, 2252, 2280-2)
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG,SPH) 3 September 2008
