Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656949

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG20NW 7 2499 0531.

(Centred: NG 2499 0531) At Losaig Eag, a probable dun comprising a horseshoe-shaped earthen bank with two huts inside.

At A = (NG 2498 0525) is a circular hut, and at B= (NG 2504 0528 {NG20NE}) is a so-called 'Viking' burial situated on top of the bank.

Private 6"map of T C Lethbridge, 27 May 1972.

Lethbridge's interpretation of this site is completely erroneous. 'Losaid Eag' is a low-lying level peninsula covered with weathered-down lazybeds. The "horseshoe-shaped bank" is a modern bank of turf-covered linear clearance and the site as a whole is insignificant. Some hut footings and stone clearance heaps survive, but none is of early date.

Visited by OS (I S S), 27 May 1972.

(Formerly classified as farmstead; classification changed to 'dun'; enclosures). There is nothing on this broad terrace below the track to Tarbert to indicate the site of a dun, although several large plots of lazy-bed cultivation, numerous clearance cairns, stretches of field-banks (NG20NE 109.04) and the grass-grown remains of three enclosures are visible.

The largest of the enclosures is subrectangular on plan, and may even be the remains of a building measuring 6m from ENE to WSW by 2.7m transversely within an earthen bank spread up to 2m in thickness and 0.3m in height. The other enclosures lie 7.5m to the NNE and 25m to the SW respectively; the former is oval on plan and measures 3.7m by 2.6m within an earthen bank up to 2.6m in thickness, while the latter measures 4.6m in diameter within a low stony bank 1m in thickness and has a possible entrance on the NW.

(Canna 901-3).

Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 11 April 1995.