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Field Visit
Date 29 June 2012
Event ID 927957
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/927957
Two rectangular buildings which form part of a township (NF81NW 3) are located in a narrow defile 80m SE of a sea inlet (Hairteabhagh) and at the SW edge of Meall an Iasgaich (Hill of the Fishing - OS Name Book 13, 132). The largest building measures 13m from WNW to ESE by 4m within a battered rubble wall with rounded corners up to 1.1m in thickness and 1.2m in height. There is an entrance, 0.8m wide, in the SSW side. The second building, which lies immediately to the ESE, measures 5.2m from E to W by 3.5m within a battered rubble wall up to 1m in thickness and 1.1m high. The entrance, 0.8m wide, is in the SW corner. Both buildings have been set into the slope on the N side of the stream that runs through the defile and in each case a simple soak away separates the wall from the natural slope behind. Across the burn, 18m to the W, there is a rectangular enclosure that measures 15m from NE to SW by 9m within a wall reduced to a grass-grown bank.
The buildings are depicted unroofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire (Hebrides) 1880, Sheet LVIII). Probably contemporary with their use was the lazy-bed cultivation, extensive remains of which are visible in the vicinity. On both sides of the stream gully immediately E of the buildings the beds are orientated N to S and measure about 1.7m in breadth; on the flatter ground to the SW, however, they are orientated WNW and ESE and measure between 3m and 4m in breadth.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 29 June 2012
