Eigg, Howlin
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Hut (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Eigg, Howlin
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Hut (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Five Pennies; Cuig Peighinnean
Canmore ID 22210
Site Number NM49SE 2
NGR NM 47745 90048
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22210
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (6 May 1972)
NM49SE 2 47745 90048
A sub-circular, stone-walled enclosure about 9m in diameter; SE arc mutilated. Probably modern.
Visited by OS 6 May 1972.
Measured Survey (30 August 2001)
RCAHMS surveyed the hut circle at Howlin (Tolain) on 30 August 2001 with plane-table and alidade at a scale of 1:100. The plan was later used as the basis for an illustration that was published in 2016 (Hunter, fig. 3.8).
Field Visit (15 May 2001)
These two hut-circles, one superimposed on the other, stand on a slight rise within a later field system N of Five Pennies township (NM48NE 39). The later hut-circle, which has made use of the north-east arc of the wall of the earlier one, measures 8m in diameter within a rubble wall 1.2m thick and 0.5m high. The entrance was probably on the SSE, where there is now a wide gap in the wall. The earlier hut-circle was slightly larger, measuring 13.3m from E to W over a wall now spread to 2m thick. The interior shows traces of lazy-bed cultivation.
There is a small hut, its walls reduced to stony banks, built against the outer face of the earlier hut-circle on the NNW and about 10m to the S there is an oval enclosure measuring 4.4m by 3.4m within a drystone rubble wall.
(EIGG01 324-6)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 15 May 2001
Management (2004)
Scheduled as Cuig Peighinnean, hut circle.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 February 2004.
