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Desk Based Assessment
Date 28 April 1966
Event ID 879399
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/879399
(Area: NF 101995) According to Macaulay in 1764 (K Macaulay 1764), the medieval village of St Kilda comprised houses built in two rows...facing one another with a tolerable causeway in the middle...called the Street'. This was 1/4 mile from the sea (ie. twice the distance of the 1830-60 village). He adds that 'Tobar Childa (NF19NW 13) was 'near the heart of the village'.
Both Williamson (K Williamson and J M Boyd 1963) and Macgregor (D R Macgregor 1960) are of the opinion that the site of the (? 1400-1830) village extended from Tobar Childa in a SE direction to the factor's house, following the line of a natural embankment which may well be Macaulay's 'causeway'. Macgregor notes 'a significant number of vestiges of circular middens and ash-pits' along this line, and remarks on the situation being favoured by both sun and shelter.
Both agree that Tobar Childa was the probable nucleus of the village and Williamson points out that the group of 'Cleitean' here represents all that is left of the old village, and that many of these structures have features which indicate that they were built in the first place as dwellings.
K Macaulay 1764; K Williamson and J M Boyd 1960 and 1963; D R Macgregor 1960.
