Muck, Toaluinn
Building (Period Unassigned), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval)
Site Name Muck, Toaluinn
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Port Na Lice; Blar Mor
Canmore ID 269277
Site Number NM48SW 10
NGR NM 41821 80491
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269277
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Measured Survey (17 June 2002)
RCAHMS surveyed the building at Toaluinn, Muck on 17 June 2002 with plane table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:250. The plan was later used as the basis for an illustration published in 2016 at a scale of 1:400 (Hunter, fig. 4.17).
Field Visit (22 May 2002)
NM48SW 10 41821 80491
This building lies on the old storm beach above the High Water Mark at Toaluinn. It measures 13.4m from NNW to SSE by 5.4m transversely within a wall reduced to a boulder-faced bank 2.2m in thickness and up to 0.5m in height. The building appears to narrow internally towards the SSE end, and has an outshot on the NNW, its WSW side formed by a volcanic dyke. A low mound running up the interior is probably a lazy bed. Further lazy beds are visible to the S and SE.
(Muck02, 314)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 22 May 2002
