Skye, Greshornish Point
Dyke (Period Unknown), Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Pen (Period Unknown)
Site Name Skye, Greshornish Point
Classification Dyke (Period Unknown), Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Pen (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 71193
Site Number NG35NW 8
NGR NG 34443 55337
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71193
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (21 November 1990)
NG35NW 8 3444 5534.
This peat-covered hut-circle is situated on a terrace on the SW flank of one of the hillocks that form the spine of the Greshornish peninsula; it measures about 9.6m in internal diameter with an entrance that is probably on the ESE. For most of its circuit the wall forms a low mound on the surface of the peat, but on the N it is no more than an internal scarp. To the ENE of the hut-circle an orthostatic wall can be traced across the slope for a distance of about 60m (NG 3448 5537 to 3453 5534). A further length of wall crosses the gully to the SE (NG 3452 5530). A short distance beyond the latter a small pen has been built against an outcrop on the SW side of the gully.
(WAT90 1464-5)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 21 November 1990.
