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St Kilda, Boreray
Cleit (Period Unassigned), Structure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name St Kilda, Boreray
Classification Cleit (Period Unassigned), Structure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 310354
Site Number NA10SE 18
NGR NA 15741 04748
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/310354
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Harris
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (13 July 2010)
This is one of the best-preserved cliets on Boreray (Mary Harman Boreray 28). It is perched on the very tip of a nose of the cliff-edge overlooking the sea on the eastern coast of the island. Aligned NW and SE, it measures 3m in length by 2.45m in breadth, and though the wall is beginning to collapse at the E corner the top of the roof stands 1.7m above the foot of the SE end. At the entrance in the NW end, which is 0.75m wide by 0.9m high, the wall is 0.8m thick, and the interior extends back behind a blocking of piled up stones for a distance of 2.15m. Six pieces of wood are wedged between the walls, while several others now lie on the floor.
Materials to build the cleit were evidently taken from an earlier structure (Boreray 77), traces of which can be seen immediately to the WNW, comprising four stones forming its W corner and a robber trench marking its SSE side. Three of the stones apparently belong to the inner face of the NNW wall, which thus measures at least 3.3m in length, while the position of the robber trench gives a breadth of some 2m. Evidently these are the remains of some type of building, but whether simply an earlier cleit or a bothy is not clear.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH, IP) 13 July 2010
