Raasay, Eyre
Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Raasay, Eyre
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 119630
Site Number NG53SE 10
NGR NG 578 342
NGR Description Centred NG 578 342
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/119630
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG53SE 10 centred 578 342
A township comprising twelve unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building, a field-system (NG 576 345) and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1879, sheet xxxvi). Four roofed, sixteen unroofed buildings, some field walls, a head-dyke and the field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1988).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 8 November 1996
Sites recorded during a survey carried out by Glasgow University Certificate in Field Archaeology students in April 1998, covering an area of 30ha at Eyre Point, the SE extremity of the island of Raasay.
NG 5746 3454 House.
NG 5747 3453 House annexe.
NG 5747 3456 House.
NG 5747 3455 House annexe.
NG 5748 3456 Shed/outhouse.
NG 5742 3491 Shieling (1 cell); oval.
NG 5743 3492 Shieling (2 cell).
NG 5743 3493 Shieling (2 cell).
NG 5744 3454 House.
NG 5743 3453 Outhouse.
NG 5744 3453 Stack stand.
NG 5743 3452 Stone crescent (purpose unknown).
NG 5739 3453 Store/iodhlainn; oval.
NG 5732 3456 Revetment.
NG 5733 3453 House/shieling; oval.
NG 5728 3453 Pen/spirit still.
NG 5734 3443 ?Water mill.
NG 5741 3441 Clearance cairn/?burnt mound; crescent-shaped.
NG 5735 3443 - NG 5741 3441 Lynchet.
NG 5755 3475 Shieling.
NG 5755 3476 Shieling.
NG 575 348 Shieling.
NG 576 349 Shieling (oval); shieling (tripartite).
NG 5749 3488 Stone alignment/double stone row.
NG 5747 3436 Building.
NG 5746 3436 ?Kiln.
NG 5743 3424 ?Section of old track.
NG 5738 3428 ?House wall.
NG 5737 3430 Cairn.
NG 5737 3432 ?Cairn.
NG 5770 3430 Sheep fank (centre).
NG 5771 3428 ?House platform.
NG 5777 3428 Structure.
NG 5773 3428 Raised house platform.
NG 5777 3429 Structure; sub-rectangular.
NG 5776 3431 Structure; semi-circular.
NG 5775 3428 Structure; sub-rectangular.
NG 5772 3424 ?Quarry.
NG 5775 3424 Structure; sub-rectangular.
NG 5776 3425 ?Quarry.
NG 5776 3424 Bank/wind-break.
NG 5775 3434 House with yarrow.
NG 5772 3431 Structure; sub-rectangular
A more detailed summary has been lodged with the NMRS.
L Masters 1998
Field Visit (April 2008)
The survey of the following sites was carried out in April 2008 as part of a continuing programme to record the
physical remains of human activity on the Island of Raasay.
NG 5784 3445 (centred on) – Township of Eyre The site is situated above Eyre Point and consists of eight structures including houses, byres, stores and an enclosure. The site is part of the township surveyed in 1998. See ACFA Occasional paper No.43 Appendix 2.
Report: RCAHMS
Funder: Glasgow Archaeological Society and The Robert Kiln Charitable Trust
J Macdonald and S Scott Wood – ACFA
