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Rona, Fianuis
Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rona, Fianuis
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) North Rona; Rona Ronaidh
Canmore ID 320017
Site Number HW83SW 21
NGR HW 81476 33076
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/320017
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Barvas
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (3 July 2009)
This heavily ruined building is choked with tumbled stones and was occupied on the date of visit by nesting Fulmars. Internally it measures about 3m from NNE to SSW by 2.8m transversely, and the walls are still up to 0.8m high externally at entrance on the E. This opens into an enclosure, which is trapezoidal on plan, measuring 15m by 14m transversely on the W and 8m on the E. The enclosure is apparently incorporated into another boundary that extends across the peninsulr (see HW83SW 6), though the robbed character of this wall extending W suggests that it may have been robbed to provide stones for the building, and possibly for the enclosure also. The enclosure and the wall are both shown on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis sheet 47), which also annotates the building as a ruin. An unfinished and broken circular quernstone of gneiss 540mm in diameter by 120mm in thickness lies in a sandy hollow immediately SW of the building.
Visited by RCAHMS (SH, DCC) 3 July 2009
