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Cellular Building (Period Unassigned), Cleit (Period Unassigned), Gathering Fold (Post Medieval)

Site Name St Kilda, Hirta, Gleann Mor, Structure G

Classification Cellular Building (Period Unassigned), Cleit (Period Unassigned), Gathering Fold (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 294885

Site Number NA00SE 18

NGR NA 08754 00105

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/294885

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DP 045013

Gleann Mor, The Amazon's House and Structures F-G. View from N.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View of the inner face of the NW wall of the fold, showing the floor-level drain and entrance into cell a.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Structure G from E

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

10/9/2007

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View from South East.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1986

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. General view from East.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1986

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Gleann Mor, The Amazon's House and Structures F-H. View from NE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View of cellular structure from W.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Hirta, Gleann Mor. General view from SW including The Amazon's House and Structures D-H.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Hirta, Gleann Mor. General view from W including The Amazon's House and Structures F-H and Q-R.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View from South East.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1983

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View from South East.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1983

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Publication Illustration, St Kilda, Structure G, Gleann Mor. 400dpi copy of GV005695.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

8/2015

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Structure G, view from SE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

4/2007

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Structure G from E

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/2004

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. General view from E.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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View from the E

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

10/8/1967

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Mary Harman's plans of structures in Gleann Mor, Hirta, St Kilda. Structures G, J, F, I.

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Papers of Dr Mary Harman, archaeologist, Edinburgh, Scotland

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St Kilda, Gleann Mor. Survey drawing of Structure G.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

c. 1985

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Structure G, view from SE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

4/2007

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Gleann Mor, The Amazon's House and Structures F-H. View from E.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. General view from S.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. General view from S.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Hirta, Gleann Mor. General view from SW including The Amazon's House and Structures D-H.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

10/5/2008

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Hirta, Gleann Mor. View of E side of burn, Abhainn a' Ghlinne Mhor, including The Amazon's House, and structures F-J, Q-R and U.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

16/5/2008

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Publication drawing; St Kilda, Gleann Mor, NE area.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

c. 1986

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Publication drawing; St Kilda, Gleann Mor, Structure G.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

15/1/1987

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Structures G and H from NE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

10/9/2007

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Publication drawing; St Kilda, Gleann Mor, NE area. Photographic copy.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

c. 1986

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. General view from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View of cellular structure from W.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Mary Harman's plans of structures in Gleann Mor, Hirta, St Kilda. Structures G-L.

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Papers of Dr Mary Harman, archaeologist, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Amazon's House and Gathering Folds from N

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

7/2004

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View from South East.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1986

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Gleann Mor, The Amazon's House and Structures F-H. View from SE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, Structure G. View of cellular structure from SW.

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6/5/2008

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Gleann Mor, The Amazon's House and Structures F-H. General view from NE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

10/5/2008

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Hirta, Gleann Mor. General view from W including The Amazon's House and Structures F-H and Q-R.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

10/5/2008

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Administrative Areas

Council Western Isles
Parish Harris
Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
Former District Western Isles
Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

see NA00SE 1

Activities

Publication Account (1988)

A sample of structures within Gleann Mor was surveyed in detail by RCAHMS 1983-6. Each was provided with a detailed description and a plan.

Stell and Harman 1988

Field Visit (3 September 2009)

RCAHMS Archaeological Survey: St Kilda

A cellular structure has been incorporated into a later gathering fold and is overlain by a cleit on the SW.

(Hirta 414)

Visited by RCAHMS (ARG, SPH) 3 September 2009

Measured Survey (5 September 2009 - 9 September 2009)

RCAHMS Archaeological Survey: St Kilda

RCAHMS surveyed Gleann Mor, Hirta, St Kilda between 5-9 September 2008, using GPS data and ground observation, to produce a site plan at a scale of 1:500 across five survey sheets. These survey drawings were later used as the basis for a site plan redrawn in vector graphics software for publication at a scale of 1:2500 (Gannon and Geddes 2015,84)

Condition Survey (December 2012)

A monitoring survey of twenty structures in Gleann Mor was undertaken in 2012.

NTS 2012

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