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Muck, Port Mor
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval)
Site Name Muck, Port Mor
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 118006
Site Number NM47NW 11
NGR NM 426 795
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/118006
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM47NW 11 426 795
A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings, one of which is built into an internal corner of an enclosure, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Muck, 1880, sheet lxxii), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 10 December 1996
This farmstead is situated at the rear of a terrace to the NW of Torr Creagach and E of Carndearg and comprises the stone footings of three buildings and an enclosure. Two of the buildings (Muck02 57-8) are ranged along the ENE side of the enclosure, while the third lies a short distance to the SW (Muck02 59). The buildings range from 7.4m to 9m in length by 3.3m to 4.3m in breadth internally, and the building to the SW has an outshot some 3.3m in length at its SE end. Each of the buildings has a midden hollow immediately outside its entrance on the ENE.
Two buildings are depicted roofless at this location on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Muck, 1880, sheet lxxii). One corresponds to the building on the SW (Muck02 59), while the other may have been a small building inserted into the SE end of the southern building on the ENE side of the enclosure, though there was no trace of this on the date of visit. The enclosure is also shown on the 1st edition map. Nothing is shown at this location on Chapman's estate map of 1809.
The terrace to the NW of the farmstead and the low ridge to the E are covered in lazy-beds. They generally measure up to about 2m between furrows and many, especially to the E of the farmstead are arranged in short, interlocking blocks. On the terrace to the NW, however, they measure up to 80m in length. A later field encloses an irregular area of about 0.5ha immediately to the NNW of the farmstead, and overlies a thick earth and stone bank on the S and W. It also overlies another bank approaching the farmstead from the N (NM 42621 79504). In comparison with the lazy-beds outside this later field, those within it have been flattened by cultivation.
(Muck02, 57-9)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 7 March 2002
