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Muck, Beinn Airein

Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Pen (Post Medieval)

Site Name Muck, Beinn Airein

Classification Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Pen (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 291878

Site Number NM47NW 86

NGR NM 40121 79209

NGR Description centred NM 40121 79209

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NM47NW 86 centred 40121 79209

Two huts, a pen and two enclosures are scattered along a gully at the foot of the cliffs on the SW of Beinn Airein. The huts (Muck02 338, 341) measure 3.2m and 5m in length by and 1.9m and 2.1m in breadth respectively within stony banks. The northern (Muck02 341) has a cell attached towards the N end of its E side; it measures 1.4m by 1.1m internally. The enclosure and pen (Muck02 339-40) lie to the SE, the enclosure measuring 4.4m by 3.4m within a stony bank, the pen 2.5m by 1.7m. The other enclosure (Muck02 337) is situated to the S, and has been built amongst the boulders at the foot of a scree slope. It measures 3.3m by 3m within a stony bank 0.6m in thickness by up to 0.3m in height.

(Muck02, 337-41)

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 21 May 2002

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