Monument record 12900 - Tom ta and Mhaol Mhor, Leurbost

The remains of a wall appear to run sporadically around the contour of a little hill presumably originally enclosing its top section. The wall now appears more like a blank, c.1.5m wide and 0.5m - 1m tall, and would appear to have been consrtructed using c.0.1 - 0.2m sizeclearance stones to fill in a central void between larger blocks. This feature may simply be a stock enclosure associated with the nearby shieling's, however there is also the possibility that it is a small defended settlement or fort dating from a much earlier time, as structures such as this are often dated from the iron age. See Drg.5,6.

Ian McHardy, 2006, The Archaeology of the Tom Ta and Mhaol Mhor area, Leurbost (Unpublished document). SWE41104.