Monument record 808 - ST KILDA VILLAGE, CLEIT 68

NF19NW 21.15 1003 9942.

This simple drystone structure, a good example of a regular cleit with an end entrance, stands in an area N of the burial-ground close to the W edge of the plot associated with House 10 and Black House M.
Set on a gentle slope, it is aligned NW-SE and of an elongated U-plan, the open entrance end facing uphill. Externally, the walls are battered and built of small stones, the roof consisting of a rounded heap of earth and stones covered with turf. The entrance is of the same internal width as the cleit and there is a further opening 0.31m high between the door lintel and the ceiling. The E jamb of the doorway preserves traces of a wooden door-frame. Internally, the walls are built mainly of medium-sized stones and are corbelled towards the ceiling where the slabs have an internal clear span of 0.43m. At and above the level of the existing floor, which incorporates an 0.28m
layer of dung and debris, the width at mid-length is 0.94m and the height 1.6m; the cleit interior measures 5.72m in maximum length.
G P Stell and M Harman 1988.

G P and M Stell and Harman, 1988, Buildings of St Kilda, 45, no. 15 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8255.