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Sanday, Suileabhaig
Building(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Sanday, Suileabhaig
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Canna
Canmore ID 10750
Site Number NG20SE 19
NGR NG 2800 0428
NGR Description NG 2800 0428 and NG 2801 0429
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10750
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG20SE 19 2800 0428 and 2801 0429
NG 2800 0427. Footings of two rectangular buildings, one measuring 14.5m NE-SW by 3.5m within a wall averaging 1.2m thick, with a cross-wall c. 3.0m from the SW end. The other, immediately N, measures 8.0m NW-SE by 3.9m within a wall 1.2m thick; entrance in the SE gable. Walls of each house slightly bowed with rounded gables, reminscent of Viking longhouses, but their condition suggests they are not earlier than the late medieval period.
Visited by OS 29 May 1972.
These two drystone buildings, dimensions as given by OS, are arranged to frame a yard, open to the S, but protected on the N and E by the buildings, and on the W by a cliff. The gable walls of both buildings are straight internally and gently rounded externally, with well-rounded corners. The E long wall of the large building bows outwards very slightly between the cross wall and the N gable, but the W wall is gently sinous. There is no visible bowing of the long walls of the smaller building. They do not resemble Viking longhouses. The plan, layout, character of the masonry and preservation all combine to argue that this is a farmstead of recent date, probably later than the 'late medieval period' suggested by OS.
Visited April 1977.
L Alcock 1983.
(Formerly classified as farmstead at NG 2800 0427; re-classified as buildings at NG 2800 0428 and 2801 0429). Two rectangular buildings lie at the foot of a crag above the rocky foreshore to the NNE of Suileabhaig; both comprise two compartments and have boulder-faced walls with a rubble core, and their corners are square internally, but round externally. The larger of the two (NG 2800 0428) measures 14.5m from NNE to SSW by 3.6m transversely within a wall up to 1m in thickness and 0.8m in height. The entrance is in the E side wall, and here there is an external revetted plinth. The second building (NG 2801 0429) is situated 5m to the NE and measures 7.9m from ESE to WSW by 4.2m transversely within a wall 1.1m in thickness and 0.8m in height. The building has been terraced into the slope at its E end, and its entrance is in the E end.
(Canna 192-3).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 5 May 1994.
Field Visit (29 May 1972)
NG 2800 0427. Footings of two rectangular buildings, one measuring 14.5m NE-SW by 3.5m within a wall averaging 1.2m thick, with a cross-wall c. 3.0m from the SW end. The other, immediately N, measures 8.0m NW-SE by 3.9m within a wall 1.2m thick; entrance in the SE gable. Walls of each house slightly bowed with rounded gables, reminscent of Viking longhouses, but their condition suggests they are not earlier than the late medieval period.
Visited by OS 29 May 1972.
Field Visit (1977)
These two drystone buildings, dimensions as given by OS, are arranged to frame a yard, open to the S, but protected on the N and E by the buildings, and on the W by a cliff. The gable walls of both buildings are straight internally and gently rounded externally, with well-rounded corners. The E long wall of the large building bows outwards very slightly between the cross wall and the N gable, but the W wall is gently sinous. There is no visible bowing of the long walls of the smaller building. They do not resemble Viking longhouses. The plan, layout, character of the masonry and preservation all combine to argue that this is a farmstead of recent date, probably later than the 'late medieval period' suggested by OS.
Visited April 1977.
L Alcock 1983.
Field Visit (5 May 1994)
(Formerly classified as farmstead at NG 2800 0427; re-classified as buildings at NG 2800 0428 and 2801 0429). Two rectangular buildings lie at the foot of a crag above the rocky foreshore to the NNE of Suileabhaig; both comprise two compartments and have boulder-faced walls with a rubble core, and their corners are square internally, but round externally. The larger of the two (NG 2800 0428) measures 14.5m from NNE to SSW by 3.6m transversely within a wall up to 1m in thickness and 0.8m in height. The entrance is in the E side wall, and here there is an external revetted plinth. The second building (NG 2801 0429) is situated 5m to the NE and measures 7.9m from ESE to WSW by 4.2m transversely within a wall 1.1m in thickness and 0.8m in height. The building has been terraced into the slope at its E end, and its entrance is in the E end.
(Canna 192-3).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 5 May 1994.
