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MHG51087 - Muck, Cnoc Alasdair

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NMRS Report: (20/11/2007 17:29:19)
NM48SW 12 41595 80157

The remains of a subrectangular building lie to the NW of Cnoc Alasdair, on the N side of a wall immediately to the W of the track to Gallanach. The building measures 8.2m from NNW to SSE by 2.3m transversely within a wall reduced to a low grass-grown bank spread up to 1.2m in thickness. The SSE end was largely removed when the adjacent cattle-grid was constructed, and is now obscured by recent stone dumping. While digging the foundations of the cattle-grid, a fragment of a saddle quern was discovered. Made from a light-coloured speckled granitic rock, the surviving portion measures 0.41m by 0.32m and 0.2m in thickness, and the worn hollow in its upper surface is about 0.15m deep; this is now housed in the toilet of the craftshop and tearoom at Port Mor.
(Muck02, 201)
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG) 15 May 2002

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Grid reference	Centred NM 41595 80157 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM48SW
Civil Parish	SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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