Field Visit
Date 19 May 2002
Event ID 932707
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/932707
A cylindrical Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar is situated on the summit plateau of Beinn Airein, together with a turf mound, previously classified as a burial cairn, and an enclosure. The turf mound (Muck02 333) lies to the SE of the pillar and measures 5.7m in diameter and stands up to 0.7m in height; there is a turf-stripping halo around it. The purpose of the enclosure at the S end of the broad summit is not known. Bounded by the cliffs on the S and elsewhere by a bank up to 3m thick and 0.4m high, it encloses an area measuring about 60m from E to W by 35m internally. It too is built of turf, stripped in a broad band to either side of the bank. Below the enclosure, a short stretch of trackway zig zags down the steep rocky slope that forms the S flank of Beinn Airein.
(Muck02, 333)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, SDB) 19 May 2002
