Eigg, Monadh A'bhraighe
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Pen(S) (Period Unassigned), Rock Shelter(S) (Period Unassigned), Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eigg, Monadh A'bhraighe
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Pen(S) (Period Unassigned), Rock Shelter(S) (Period Unassigned), Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 352838
Site Number NM48NE 171
NGR NM 49502 87242
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/352838
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (22 April 2002)
A group of at least nine rock shelters, five huts, seven pens and one enclosure are clustered among boulders at least 60m S of an unnamed lochan and 55m N of another similar group (see NM48NE 53).
The rock shelters (924, 929-30, 933-35, 939, and 959-60) have been built of short lengths of drystone walling against and between overhanging boulders, creating a space that measures up to 6m by 2.4m within a wall 1.1m in thickness and 0.6m high. Six examples (924, 929, 933, 934, 939 and 959) contain midden material that includes whelk and limpet shell and one (939) has a rough enclosure attached to its S side.
The huts (925-7, 931, 937) are sub-rectangular or oval and the largest measures 4.3m by 1.9m within a rubble wall 0.7m in thickness and 0.5m in height. Each of the small pens (925, 928, 932, 936, 938, 940) have been set against large boulders.
EIGG01 924-940, 959-960
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 22 April 2002
