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Skye, Allt Tarsuinn
Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Allt Tarsuinn
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 311791
Site Number NG61SE 41
NGR NG 68569 10748
NGR Description Centre of site
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/311791
- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
A substantial round-ended stone and turf building measuring 15m x 5m was recorded during a pre-afforestation survey by Wordsworth Archaeological Services in November 2000 (site 2). The building is aligned approximately N - S and there is an entrance in the centre of the E wall. The walls are 0.5m-0.6m high and 0.7m-0.8m thick. There is a platform to the SE, measuring 6m in diameter, with a drystone store of 1m diameter, on its edge. Some 60m to the NE is a triangular turf walled enclosure measuring 11m (N-S) x 10m (E-W). Aerial photographs show a second enclosure some 50m W of the building. The site lieson a gentle slope in a bracken-infested clearing on the W bank of a small, un-named stream.
Information from Ishbel MacKinnon, July 2011.
