Eigg, An Sgurr
Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Pen (Period Unassigned), Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eigg, An Sgurr
Classification Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Pen (Period Unassigned), Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 352463
Site Number NM48SE 95
NGR NM 4580 8465
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/352463
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (14 October 2002 - 15 October 2002)
A quarry, two huts, three small enclosures and a pen stand below the cliffs of An Sgurr up to 130m SE of the 355m summit depicted on current OS maps. The first (564) is subrectangular and measures 3.4m by 2.3m within stone walls 0.4m thick and 0.5m high. It lies at the NW end of an enclosure that measures 6.1m in length by 2.5m in breadth. About 40m to the SE, a second hut (565) is D-shaped on plan and measures 2.4m in length by 2m in breadth within stone walls 0.4m thick and 0.8m high.
An second enclosure (563) is situated between the two huts, and contains a later pen. A third enclosure (566) stands 30m to the SE of hut 565. It is terraced into the slope on the NNE side, and the SSW side is terraced up to form a flat interior.
while a third stands 30m SE of hut (565). Finally, there are traces of quarrying on exposed pitchstone outcrops under overhanging escarpments at NM 45781 84672, between a hut and an enclosure (EIGG01 597).
EIGG01 563-6, 597
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 14-15 October 2002
