MHG6573 - Possible Corn-Drying Kiln, Unish, Skye

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Type and Period (3)

  • ENCLOSURE (Undated)
  • BUILDING (Undated)
  • CORN DRYING KILN (Undated)

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  • None recorded
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Full Description

Renumbered from NG26NW0001N
JHooper, 28/11/2001

NG26NW 1.02 2356 6664.

Situated on a gentle N-facing slope, a rectilinear enclosure is attached to the N end of a building, which measures 10.7m in length by 2.8m in breadth within rubble-faced walls, 1.1m in thickness and 0.5m in height. A kerbed rectangular plinth, midway along the inside of the W wall, which measures 2m by 1.2m with a hole in its middle 0.25m in diameter, which may be a corn-drying kiln. There is an entrance in the E side.
The enclosure measures 14m from N to S by 10m transversely. A bank runs off to the S and there are several clearance heaps and banks to the S and E of the site.
(WAT90 262, 267)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 14 November 1990.

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 2356 6646 (60m by 60m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NG26NW
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish DUIRINISH

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