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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1970
Event ID 675088
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675088
NM80SW 6 8002 0146.
(NM 8010 0160) (visible on RAF air photograph CPE/Scot/UK 249: 4022-3)
A fort, 86' x 52' overall with a wall perhaps 5' thick lies SW of the farm-house on Eilean Righ with cliff to the W and sloping ground on other sides. The outer wall-face stands to 3'6" at the SW near the cliff. A small oval house, 22' by 14' with a wall 3'6" to 6' thick lies against the inside of the fort wall on the S. A cleft leads to the entrance on the NE of the fort.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
NM 8001 0144. On a rocky knoll to the SW of the farmhouse on Eilean Righ are the robbed remains of a sub-rectangular enclosure measuring 25.0m NE-SW x 16.0m NW-SE internally. It is defined by a rubble wall c. 2.0m thick, faced with boulders on the outside, on all but the NW side, where a cliff face provides the boundary. There is an entrance in the NE. In the SE of the enclosure is a later oval structure measuring 6.4m E-W x 5.0m N-S within boulder-faced rubble walls 1.5m - 2.0m thick, with an entrance in the NE.
The construction and situation of the larger feature tend to suggest that it is the remains of a dun.
Visited by OS (J P) 22 May 1970.
