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Eigg, Garbh Bealach
Fort (Prehistoric), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eigg, Garbh Bealach
Classification Fort (Prehistoric), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Sandavore; Galmisdale; 800
Canmore ID 269299
Site Number NM48SE 42
NGR NM 4703 8391
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269299
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Measured Survey (13 October 2002)
RCAHMS surveyed the fort at Garbh Bealach on 13 October 2002 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:500.
Note (13 November 2014 - 23 May 2016)
This small fortification occupies the summit of a rocky knoll rising abruptly out of the moorland between Galmisdale and Grulin. Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 28m from N to S by 24m transversely (0.05ha) within a wall can be traced around the margin of the summit on the S and W. The wall has been reduced to a low mound about 2m thick along which a few outer facing-stones can be seen. The entrance is probably on the SE, where there is a shallow cleft in the flank of the knoll. The foundations of two roughly circular structures back against the line of the wall on the NW, but it is difficult to determine their relationship to the enclosing wall without excavation.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2528
