Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655978

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF09NE 3 0836 9927.

(NF 0830 9932) Claigeann an Tigh Faire (NR)

OS 6"map, annotated by J Mathieson (1928)

Tigh na faire - a watch-house, at one time manned day and night.

J Mathieson 1928.

At Claigeann an Tigh Faire there is a platform on the hillside, half quarried and half built up, the floor of which is ringed with slabs of stone set on edge with their long axes on the circumference of a circle about 30ft in diameter. The entrance was not apparent.

Information from R Ritchie (MPBW Mss) 1957.

NF 0836 9927. Situated on the high ridge approach to Mullach Bi, this hut floor is scooped into the hill-slope overlooking Gleann Mor. It measures 7.5 x 6.2m, the height at the rear of the platform being 1.2m at the centre. A ring of stones outlines the hut.

Visited by OS (J L D) 9 August 1967.

Scheduled as 'St Kilda, Claigeann an Tigh Faire, platform and cleitean... a prehistoric platform, presumed to be the base for a house structure, and a large and diverse range of small cleitean... It also includes the Lover's stone'.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 21 May 2002.