Skye, Cnoc Na Cairidh

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NG 264 540. On the east bank, and over-looking the mouth of the Bay River at the end of a low ridge, there is a turf-covered mound of stones, oval in shape, measuring 18.0m E-W by 12.0m transversely, by about 1.5m in height.

It is composed of small stones and there is a vestigial bank on the SE side.

To the SE there are the foundations of a small building measuring 4.0m by 2.0m, and there are the remains of other buildings close by.

This feature is clearly not defensive and may be either a ruined enclosure or building, or possibly a denuded cairn.

Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/175: 2289-90.

Visited by OS (ASP) 3 May 1961;

On a small point on the E side of the Bay River is a small dun (10m OD) measuring 7m NW-SE and 14m transversely enclosing some 70m sq metres. The N and W sides slope steeply into the sea below, but elsewhere slopes gently to the ground below. Access was from a ridge running NW-SE approaching from the SE. Howver, the ridge is cut off from the dun wall by a wall and ditch in poor condition. The ditch is half filled with stone tumble. The dun wall is constructed of small boulders but no entrance visible and a small bit of walling survives in the S 0.4m high in two courses. A later 'F' shaped construction lies within the dun.

Visited by M A Nicolson 2 June 1990.