Archaeology Notes

Event ID 783305

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG20NE 109.01 2499 0549 to 2538 0574

This subdivision takes in a narrow strip of ground between the boundary with the farm of ?Tarbet? (Tarbert) to the W and the gully of an unnamed burn to the E, and stops on the upper edge of the S cliffs overlooking NG20NE 109.04. The burn gully runs roughly from NNE to SSW across the island between Beinn Tighe and Blar Beinn Tighe and is followed for much of its length by a ruinous turf-and-stone wall; the latter acts as a physical boundary between this and NG20NE 109.02 and may be an earlier land boundary subsumed within the farm of ?Keill? (A? Chill).

Several small plots of lazy-beds (NG20NE 97-100) survive within this subdivision, three of which lie on a terrace surrounded by four groups of huts. Another broader terrace lies above this and here the ground is extremely boggy, but stretches of an orthostatic wall can be traced running from E to W towards the rear of the terrace, and may originally have linked with another old wall that converges with the march dyke from SSW to NNE. These walls are similar in form to those recorded as field-systems at the W end of Canna, some of which are associated with hut-circles and may be prehistoric in origin. No cultivated ground is shown in this subdivision on the 1805 estate map, and the ground is annotated as pasture.

Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 24 November 1997.