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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 673543
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/673543
NM46SE 5 4925 6289.
(NM 4925 6289) Fort, Rubha Aird an Iasgaich: Quarrying and stone robbing have virtually destroyed this fort, situated on an isolated rocky knoll 255m NW of Mingary pier, immediately W of the road leading to Kilchoan. All that can now be seen is a thin scatter of rubble, indicating that the fort was originally oval on plan, measuring about 30m by 18m within a single wall at least 2.5m thick. The position of the entrance is uncertain, but it probably lay at the NNE end, where a shallow natural gully, now enlarged by quarrying, provides the easiest line of approach to the summit. The overgrown foundations of a small rectangular enclosure of no great age now occupy the head of the gully.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972.
