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Muck, Beinn Airein
Enclosure (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)(Possible), Pen (Post Medieval)
Site Name Muck, Beinn Airein
Classification Enclosure (Post Medieval), Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)(Possible), Pen (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 291887
Site Number NM47NW 87
NGR NM 40318 79384
NGR Description from NM 40178 79402 to NM 40318 79384
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/291887
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM47NW 87 from 40178 79402 to 40318 79384
There are three huts, a possible hut-circle, an enclosure and a pen scattered across a terrace below a N-facing line of cliffs. The huts (Muck02 371-3, 375) range in size from 2.8m to 3.7m in length by 1.8m to 2.4m in breadth within stony banks. The possible hut-circle (Muck02 374) measures 5m in internal diameter, its wall now reduced to a stony bank 0.9m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height, from which occasional inner and outer facing stones protrude. There is a broad a gap in the wall spanning the ENE arc, and the fragmentary footings of a pen measuring 2.1m by 1.2m internally are visible in the SE quadrant (Muck02 444). One of the huts (Muck02 375) lies immediately to the S of the hut-circle. The enclosure (Muck02 376), which is D-shaped on plan, is built against a boulder on the NW and measures 2.1m by 1.9m within a wall of edge-set stones; another boulder overhangs the wall on the SW. An arc of stones 2.4m to the W may be the fragmentary remains of another enclosure. A solitary pen stands in the middle of the terrace (Muck02 370) and measures 1.6m by 1.5m within a rough wall of boulders no more than 0.3m in height.
(Muck02, 370-6, 444)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 21 May 2002
