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Field Visit
Date 23 April 2001
Event ID 609632
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/609632
NM 48706 83193. The grassy terraces of the central and southern parts of Eilean Chathastail bear extensive traces of lazy-bed cultivation in numerous small patches, amounting to at least 8ha in all. Within this area (though mainly clustered close to the centre of the island) there are at least twelve small shieling huts, two enclosures and two small pens. There are also numerous clearance cairns around and amongst the lazy-beds.
In the main, the huts appear to have been turf and stone constructions, their walls now reduced to grass-grown banks. Internal measurements are only possible for about half of them, the largest (EIGG01 103; NM 48706 83193) measuring 3.2m in length by 2.2m in breadth. The two enclosures stand about 130m apart. That to the SW (EIGG01 630; NM 48712 83297) measures 13m by 11m over stone-faced banks; that to the NE (EIGG01 108; NM 48798 83407), which is the enclosure identified by the OS in 1972, measures 13m by 10m within spread banks, and has the remains of a hut within it, against the N wall.
(EIGG01 11-12, 14, 100-5, 107-8, 630)
Visited by RCAHMS (PM, AGCH) 23 April 2001
