Monument record MHG12987 - Rubha Gisgil

NC14SE 4 1672 4046.

(NC 1685 4036) Cairn (NR) (site of)

This cairn, found by the previous investigators, is incorrectly positioned on the OS map (1968). It is 120m to the WNW at NC 1672 4046. Here, 18m E of the hill summit, is the turf and heather-covered remains of a probable round cairn. The remains are poor, probably resulting from extensive robbing; the feature only survives in any substance around the W half where a band of rubble 2.5m wide and 0.3m high remains. An upright angular stone in the S, 0.5m high, may be part of a kerb. From vague indications on the E side, the cairn would have been about 7.0m in diameter. Some 20m to the ESE, situated below a small crag on ground shelving to the S, is a large pile of bare stones of varying size, measuring 10.5m E-W by 9.5m. The location is totally different from the normal open aspect encountered with a cairn, and this feature is more probably an unusually large clearance heap. Two considerably smaller heather-covered heaps of stone, almost undoubtedly clearance heaps, are adjacent to the W. About 30.0m W of the probable cairn are remains of two crude and poorly-defined shieling bothies. One is 5.0m by 2.2m internally and bi-compartmented; the other, adjacent to the W, is of indeterminate size. These bothies would seem to be contemporary with the small and large clearance heaps noted above.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 27 May 1980, (F D C) 1 May 1957 and (J L D) 14 July 1960.