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Archaeology Notes
Date 1977
Event ID 737302
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/737302
NR94NE 1 9965 4868
(Name: NR 9965 4868) Laggantuin (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1979)
Laggantuine (sic): the ruins of a 'runrig' clachan.
R McLellan 1977.
Centred NR 9975 4860. A deserted settlement occupying a large natural east-facing hollow above a coastal slope. The main building is 21m by 6m and has walls 0.8m thick with an average height of 1.5m. There are four other smaller ruinous buildings, the largest of which measures 15m by 4m. These buildings have a wall thickness of 0.8m and an average height of 1.3m. One has its north gable end still intact.
There are also four associated enclosures, of average dimension 40m, and a corn-drying kiln.
To the north, and still within the hollow, is an extensive area of rig and furrow and a number of ruined field walls.
On the coastal strip below the hollow is an area of stone clearance and fragmentary field walls. There are, however, no building remains to be seen.
Visited by OS (BS), 3 December 1977.
