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Eigg, Galmisdale
Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age)
Site Name Eigg, Galmisdale
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Eigg Lodge
Canmore ID 22188
Site Number NM48SE 4
NGR NM 47966 84075
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22188
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM48SE 4 47966 84075
(NM 4796 8407) Stone Cist found (AD 1861) (NAT)
OS 6" map (1903)
A stone cist, composed of slabs, was found about 1861. It was c. 5ft long, 2ft wide and c. 15" deep, at a depth of 2ft below ground surface, and contained nothing except a small quantity of dry earth. (See NM48SE 7 for similar site).
Name Book 1877
A cairn, overgrown with shrubs, spread to c. 12.5m in diameter and c. 1.3m maximum height. The centre has been hollowed and the S and E arcs are mutilated by an access ramp which curves up to the summit from the S revealing in these same arcs, in the body of the cairn and about 3.5m in from the edge, five blocks on edge, four of them contiguous, in a curve. These appear to be part of a kerb, probably the original edge of the cairn, giving an estimated diameter of about 8.5m. There is a triangular block on edge on the edge of the debris in the N, but this would seem to be too far out to be part of the aforementioned kerb. There is no sign of the cist in the central excavation, which has partly filled up with debris and vegetation.
Surveyed at 1/10 000.
Visited by OS (AA) 8 May 1972
Note (1928)
NOTE.
In a contribution to the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries on March 11, 1878 (vol. xii., 577-597), mention is made of the following additional monuments:
(1) "Foundations of an island dwelling" in a small loch "lying high up on the shoulder of the Scuir of Eigg, known as Lochan na Mna Moire." The island is apparently that in Lochnam Ban Mora (O.S. 6-inch), the only loch here which has an island; it is inaccessible without a boat.
(2) A cairn, "some five or six hundred yards south from Kildonnan," which provided on excavation the articles in [RCAHMS 1928] No. 2 of list on p. lvi.
(3) A cairn "a few yards further south" with articles in No 3.
(4) Cairn, "Sithean or Sguman-nan-Cailleach," containing "two cists . . . made of flat stones set on edge and laid length wise." Stones of cairn removed to fill up a drain. Sithean na Cailleich on O.S. 6-inch lxxi
The O.S. map 6-inch lxxiii. notes a stone cist just north of Kildonnan Old Church ("Ruins of Chapel," cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., as above, pp. 584-6); the site of one stone cist found in 1861, and of another in 1864, in Galmisdale; the sites of two crosses (lxxi., lxxii.) and Tobar Challuim Chille ("Columba's Well") in Cleadale (lxxi).
RCAHMS 1928
Field Visit (12 October 2001)
This cairn stands in woodland 135m S of Eigg Lodge, beside the drive leading to the house. Roughly circular, it measures about 8m in diameter and stands to a height of 0.9m. The remains of a kerb of large stones are visible on the S, but the cairn has been badly disturbed, apparently the result of landscaping to create a garden feature, and a large hollow has been dug into the centre of the mound from the top.
(EIGG01 538)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 12 October 2001
