Monument record MHG5608 - Beinn Tighe, Canna

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Grid reference Centred NG 2492 0563 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG20NW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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NG20NW 5 2493 0563.

A = (NG 2600 0547) A large mound, probably a wheelhouse and one or two small circular huts.
B = (NG 2558 0554) Circular beehive hut.
C = (NG 2517 0575) Two circular huts and one large mound, probably a wheelhouse.
Private 6"map of T C Lethbridge 1953.

These remains could not be located with any certainty. Mound 'C' is probably the remains of a circular structure at NG 2493 0563 visible as a disturbed irregular mound.
An arc of contiguous earthfast blocks (apparently part of an outer wall face) is visible in the S and W and others are visible intermittently elsewhere giving an overall diameter of 15.5m. The interior is turf-covered with many stones visible though the turf but with no intelligible pattern. The SE arc is mutilated and there are indications of later ruinous structures having been built on the N, E and S arcs. Its classification is uncertain through it is undoubtedly a dwelling. About 65.0m to the WNW are the remains of two adjacent turf-covered stone-walled structures of uncertain classification but possibly houses. They appear to be circular, each about 7.0m in diameter. A few fragments of a stone wall can be seen running W from the more southerly of the two.
In the area extending for about 250.0m E of the large structure, are the turf-covered remains of about fifteen shieling-type structures, one of which could be Lethbridge's "circular beehive hut" 'B'.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (I S S) 27 May 1972.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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