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Flannan Isles, Eilean Tighe
Bothy (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Flannan Isles, Eilean Tighe
Classification Bothy (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 3975
Site Number NA74NW 5
NGR NA 7329 4643
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3975
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Uig
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NA74NW 5 7329 4643
(NA 7325 4638) A structure resembling NA74NW 4 (a stone wall about 3 1/2' high by 3' wide enclosing an oval to round area with the remains of a small door on the E side), except that it measures only some 7 1/2' in diameter, lies at the extreme end of Eilean Tighe.
M Stewart 1933.
Observed from helicopter; not examined on ground but appears to consist of a small drystone shelter c 0.5m high built against a rock face. No evidence of the entrance can now be seen. Probably a sheiling bothy.
Visited by OS (R D), 16 July 1971.
Field Visit (4 June 2014)
The remains of this subrectangular bothy or hut are built against an outcrop at the east end of Eilean Tighe. Set into the slope and composed of two interconnected and contiguous cells, the building measures at least 2.6m from ENE to WSW by 2.4m transversely over drystone walls up to 0.8m in thickness and 0.8m in height variously composed of boulders and roughly coursed stone. A single slab of the corbelled roof remains in position over the eastern cell, while a gap 0.4m in width in the western wall may represent an entrance.
Visited by J Harden, S Halliday and J Raven 4 June 2014
