Field Visit
Date 10 March 1996
Event ID 635126
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/635126
(Location changed to centred NG 2429 0655 and classification to building, huts, mounds and field clearance cairns).
A group of four possible huts, a rectangular building and two oval mounds occupies a grassy strip of land overlooking the sea at Rubha Langanes. Most of the group lie to either side of a modern fence, but one mound and a hut are situated some 60m to the W (NG 2423 0656). This mound contains a considerable quantity of stones and measures 7.7m from NW to SE by 4m; it is overlain by a stretch of ruinous stone wall. The hut is set on top of the mound and also appears to be later than the wall. The remaining three huts are all subrectangular and range in size from 1.7m by 1m to 4m by 2.5m within stony banks. The rectangular building, and a second mound, lie on the W side of the fence (NG 2430 0655), and the building survives as a mass of tumbled stones measuring 8m from E to W by 4.5m overall. Its interior has been terraced into the slope on the S side. A few small heaps of cleared stones can be seen in the immediate vicinity.
(Canna 177-80, 1001-3).
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH, ARG), 10 March 1996.
