Monument record MHG34589 - CANNA, GARRISDALE

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NG20NW 45 2168 0527, 2164 0526 and 2168 0522

For township and farmstead of Garrisdale (NG 2163 0532), see NG20NW 44. For archaeological landscape between NG 2070 0508 and NG 2202 0591, see NG20NW 129.00.

Three small huts are scattered on the E side of the burn within the field enclosures which belonged to the township and farmstead of Garrisdale about 100m to the SSE of the fank.
NG 2168 0527. The largest of the three is subrectangular on plan and has been terraced in to the slope on the E. It measures 3.2m from N to S by 2.3m transversely within a stony bank 0.5m in thickness and 0.3m in height. It has a probable outshot at its N end.
NG 2164 0526. The second hut lies some 40m to the WSW in the SW corner of a field on the edge of the burn. Oval on plan, it measures 1.7m from E to W by 1.3m within a low stony bank 0.6m in thickness.
NG 2168 0522. The third hut lies upslope to the SE and is tucked in to the W side of a field-bank below a rocky crag. It is subrectangular on plan and measures 2m from NNW to SSE by 1.3m within a low stony bank 0.7m in thickness.
(Canna 615-7).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 5 April 1995.