Monument record MHG53603 - Building Complex, W of Leitir Fura, Kinloch, Isle of Skye
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred NG 7280 1580 (210m by 74m) (Surveyed) |
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Map sheet | NG71NW |
Geographical Area | SKYE AND LOCHALSH |
Operational Area | ROSS SKYE AND LOCHABER |
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Type and Period (3)
Full Description
A number of stone buildings built one on top of another were recorded in this location, just to the West of the main township complex of Leitir Fura. The earliest would appear to be a longhouse measuring 16m long by 5.5m wide over walls 1m thick. The walls of this structure are much reduced and there are no doors or windows present. Overlying this longhouse is a much smaller stone building on the same alignment which measures 9.5m by 5.5m over walls again 1m thick and presumably reusing part of the former structure. A door opening survives in the centre of the SE wall of this
building. There are no visible window openings. Subsequently this second building has been converted into a sheep pen by adding a rough rubble pile to the wall-heads to increase the wall height. A curving rubble wall has also been constructed to the E of the doorway to guide sheep into the pen. Two twining pens have been constructed with the NE. and SW. corners of the pen and one has been built within the SW. corner of the initial structure. A group of small turf structures lie outwith the SW end of the stone buildings. Their relationship with the stone buildings is not clear. <1>
Archive report includes plans, recording sheet and photographs. <2>
Identified in 1996 and 2007 surveys; as described above. A length of enclosure dyke runs to the W, turning N and running along the bank of the Allt an Eirannaich. <3><4>
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SHG24821 Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Wildgoose M. 01/2010. Leitir Fura, Kinloch, Isle of Skye: A Clearance Settlement Managed for Public Display - A Re-evaluation after 10 years of Public Access. Archaeological and Ancient Landscape Survey. Digital. Site LF.2010.14.
- <2> SHG24822 Collection/Project Archive: Wildgoose M. 01/2010. Leitir Fura, Kinloch, Isle of Skye: A Clearance Settlement Managed for Public Display - A Re-evaluation after 10 years of Public Access (Project Archive). Archaeological and Ancient Landscape Survey. Digital. Site LF.2010.14.
- <3> SHG25025 Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Wildgoose, M. 05/2007. A Rapid Walk-through Survey of An Area of Conifer Woodland at Kinloch, Sleat, Isle of Skye. Unaffiliated. Digital (scanned as PDF). Sites 7 & 8.
- <4> SHG25028 Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Wildgoose, M and Kozikowski, G. 1996. Leitir Fura: A survey of the visible remains and the related relic landscape. Dualchas Museums' Service. Digital. Site 14.
Finds (0)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Related Events/Activities (2)
Record last edited
Dec 2 2010 3:08PM