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Field Visit
Date 28 June 2012
Event ID 935457
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/935457
This complex site, comprising the remains of a souterrain and seven huts, is situated on the rocky and heather-grown NW slopes of Eliogar.
The entrance to the souterrain is marked by a circular hut that measures 4m in diameter, over a drystone wall 0.9m in thickness and 0.9m in height (the ‘central chamber’ noted by Callander in 1914). The entrance of the souterrain leads from the NE of this hut, although the relationship between the two is unclear . The passage extends for at least 7m and measures 0.7m in width and 0.5m in height at the entrance, but the terminal chamber recorded in 1914 could not be identified, the structure presumably having suffered further collapse.
Of the shieling huts, the best preserved lies 6m N of the first hut. It measures 2m square over drystone walls 0.8m in thickness and up to 1m in height, and there are two small additional cells or niches at the N and S.
An ‘Erd house’ is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire (Hebrides) Sheet LVI 1880). The contemporary OS Name Book (No. 13, 107) records the authorities as AA Carmichael and Captain Thomas, Royal Navy, both active figures in archaeological research in the later 19th century.
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, GFG, KG) 28 June 2012.
