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MHG5444 - Hut circle - Sliabh Beinn Tighe, Eigg

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A hut circle on Sliabh Beinn Tighe, Eigg.

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A hut circle on Sliabh Beinn Tighe, Eigg.

At NM 4577 8742 is a circular stone-walled hut with an overall diameter of 8.0m. The entrance is in the E. Immediately outside the hut is a sub-circular boulder-walled construction about 2.0m in diameter which may or may not be contemporary. To the W and S are the remains of a sinuous wall visible for about 150.0m. At intervals along it are the remains of two other walls. About 40.0m SW of the hut and built against the NE face of this wall are the poor remains of a sub-circular stone-walled structure measuring 3.0m in diameter within a boulder wall about 0.9m thick.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (ISS) 7 May 1972

See MHG62873 for the remains of the 'wall'.

This site, which stands in an area of peat cutting, is generally as described by OS 1972. There is, however, evidence for a recent excavation trench across the NW edge of the hut circle (468).
EIGG01 468, 469
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, DCC) 7 July 2001

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Grid reference	Centred NM 4581 8741 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM48NE
Civil Parish	SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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