Monument record MHG34827 - Sanday, Camas Stianabhaig

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NG20SE 30 2866 0411, 2867 0408, 2876 0413, 2865 0412 and 2863 0420

Three huts, four narrow rectangular structures (NG20NE 06), a grass-grown mound and several stretches of ruinous stone walls lie on the E side of Camas Stianabhaig around the edges of an area of cultivated ground; this area is depicted under cultivation on an estate map of 1805. The huts vary in shape and size, but the best preserved (NG 2866 0411) is situated on the E side of a burn and comprises two cells connected by a narrow passage; overall this hut measures 5.1m from ENE to WSW by 4.5m transversely and its faced rubble wall measures 0.85m in thickness and 0.65m in height. The mound (NG 2867 0408) lies 22m to the S, on the opposite side of the burn, and is subrectangular on plan, measuring 6.5m from NNW to SSE by 4.3m transversely and 0.4m in height; it is probably the remains of a collapsed hut.
The three narrow rectangular structures are all defined by two parallel rows of boulders set on edge (NG 2876 0413, NG 2865 0412 and NG 2863 0420). The longest (NG 2876 0413) lies on sloping ground at the E end of a stretch of ruinous stone wall and measures 7.9m by 2.2m transversely overall.
(Canna 402-7, 679).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 7 March 1996.