Monument record MHG5531 - Blar Na Carraigh, Canna

NG20NE 10 270 060.

(Area NG 265 062) Numerous hut sites and old cultivation. A mound "A" approximately at (NG 2650 0613) 30' x 8' high, was excavated in 1953, and revealed 4 superimposed stone huts of uncertain date.
Private 6"map of T C Lethbridge, 1953.

"On Canna, I dug a house in a shieling but it was late medieval, probably 15th-16th century It was the largest of a complex of hut sites and there were several successive floors of peat ash but the few potsherds were all medieval.
I think John Campbell still has them at Canna House."
Information contained in letter from T C Lethbridge to J N G Ritchie, RCAHMS, 17 October 1968.

A shieling area. Lethbridge's excavation survives in poor condition at NG 2706 0605.
The structure exposed appears to be a rectangular shieling about 6.5m by 2.5m. Immediately to the N are three circular, probably beehive, shielings about 5.0m in diameter surviving as hollow grassy tumps. About 40.0m to the E are traces of a group of about seven turf-covered circular structures about 2.0m in diameter. About 150.0m to the SW are the remains of a blackhouse with contemporary walls and lazybed cultivation. There is no trace of earlier cultivation in the area. Visited by OS (I S S) 25 May 1972.