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St Kilda, Hirta, Gleann Mor

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Cleit(S) (Post Medieval), Field System (18th Century), Lazy Beds (18th Century), Rock Shelter(S) (Period Unknown)

Site Name St Kilda, Hirta, Gleann Mor

Classification Cleit(S) (Post Medieval), Field System (18th Century), Lazy Beds (18th Century), Rock Shelter(S) (Period Unknown)

Canmore ID 296522

Site Number NA00SE 13

NGR NA 08136 00306

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/296522

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Gleann Mor W field system
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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

NA00SE 13 centred NA 08136 00306

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Field Visit (3 September 2008)

RCAHMS Archaeological Survey: St Kilda

This field system contains lazy bed cultivation and is defined by a ruinous rubble wall that is overlain by two of the three cleits. Four rock shelters are situated amongst the boulder scree along its W edge. The wreckage of a Sunderland flying boat ML858, which crashed on 7 June 1944, is strewn amongst the boulder scree, in particular on the S immediately outwith the field system (see NF09NE 204).

(Hirta 359-62, 2266-8)

Visited by RCAHMS (ARG, SPH) 3 September 2008

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