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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Small Isles
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Lochaber
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Activities

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.

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