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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 656213
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656213
NF70NE 1 7859 0717.
(NF 7859 0717) Weaver's Castle (NR) (Ruin)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Weaver's Castle or Caistal a Bhrebider is situated on Eilean Leathan, the largest and most southerly of the Stack Islands off the south coast of Eriskay. It is a rectangular tower of rubble in lime mortar measuring 12 1/2ft E-W by 9 3/4ft N-S within walls 4 1/4 to 4 1/2ft thick. In 1924, the NE corner stood to 15 1/2ft and the other walls were 4ft high.
RCAHMS 1928; New Statistical Account (NSA, Rev R Maclean) 1845.
Weaver's Castle is generally as described above.
Surveyed at 1:10560.
About 30.0m. east of the castle are the stone footings of two shieling-like structures within an associated circular enclosure.
Visited by OS (E G C) 22 May 1965.
