Canna, Earnagream
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Mound(S) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Canna, Earnagream
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Mound(S) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Rudha Langaninnis; Tarbert
Canmore ID 10734
Site Number NG20NW 4
NGR NG 2427 0620
NGR Description Centred NG 2427 0620
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10734
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG20NW 4 centred 2427 0620
(NG 2409 0580) (Information from private 6" map of T C Lethbridge, 1953). A group of three small cairns is situated in the valley due S of Rudha Langaninnis. They are in alignment and seemingly linked by a drystone wall (RCAHMS 1928).
Lethbridge, however, considers these to be one or more circular huts and one large one, probably a wheelhouse.
RCAHMS 1928.
Three stony mounds and a ruinous wall centred at NG 2418 0626. The central and western mounds are probably ruined circular bothies, whilst the easterly mound is a stone clearance heap. They are all undoubtedly contemporary with nearby lazybed cultivation and with several similar bothies and walls about 80.0m to the S one of which (larger than the others) is probably the alleged wheelhouse referred to by Lethbridge.
Visited by OS (I S S) 27 May 1972.
Field Visit (6 July 1925)
Cairns.
The valley due south of Rudha Langaninnis contains a group of small cairns. The group consists of three cairns in alignment and seemingly linked by a drystone wall. Four cairns similarly associated with a stone wall and two isolated cairns occur at Ant-Oban overlooking Camas Danabhaig. One of the isolated cairns has been excavated. See Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., LIX., p. 238.The cairns are roughly oval and vary in length from 10 to 23 feet, and in breadth from 8 to 17 feet, the major axis usually being north-east and south-west.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 6 July 1925.
OS map: Island of Canna liii and liv; and Islands of Rum, Sanday, etc. (Inverness-shire), lx (unnoted).
Field Visit (5 June 1994)
A group of six huts, five mounds and one small clearance cairn is situated within an area of lazy-bed cultivation (NG20NW 131.03) in a valley to the E of Earnagream. One hut and two mounds are strung along the line of a stretch of orthostatic wall, which runs roughly from N to S between two plots of cultivation and marks the western extent of the group. These two mounds, like the others, are almost certainly the remains of collapsed huts, and they incorporate several large earthfast boulders; from the northern mound one small sherd of pottery was recovered from the upcast of a rabbit burrow. The rest of the huts and mounds vary in size and shape, with most showing evidence of damage by rabbit burrowing.
The largest (NG 2427 0620) is situated on a low ridge about 80m E of the S end of the wall and measures 14.6m from NNE to SSW by 9m transversely and 1.2m in height; this may be the 'wheelhouse' mentioned by Lethbridge. It contains traces of at least four stone-built structures, only one of which is measurable, and this overlies the SE side of the mound.
(Canna 238-48, 956)
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, ARG), 5 June 1994.
