Monument record 807 - ST KILDA VILLAGE, CLEIT 75

Summary

Cleit

Location

Grid reference NF 10020 99400 (point)
Map sheet NF19NW
Island Hirta, St Kilda
Parish HARRIS, Western Isles

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Full Description

NF19NW 21.16 1002 9940.

This drystone structure, a good example of a village cleit with a side entrance, stands in the area NW of the burial-ground. It is built within the plot formerly attached to House 11 and Black House O, its W wall forming part of the boundary of the adjacent strip associated with Black Houses P and Q.
The cleit stands on a gentle slope and is aligned N-S, the entrance being towards the N end of the W side-wall. The building is of an elongated subrectangular plan, straight-sided and round-angled, outside and inside. Externally, the walls are battered, and the roof, which consists of a covering of turf, earth and stones above a series of slab ceiling-lintels, has a rounded profile. There is what appears to be a small aumbrey over the inner face of the doorway. Internally, the walls are built mainly of medium-sized stones except at the S end where the masonry comprises larger blocks and a more open construction. The walls are corbelled and the ceiling-slabs have a clear span of 0.53m above a floor-level width of 0.99m. The interior is 5.62m in maximum length and the height above the existing floor-level is 1.27m. A more solid, probably stony, floor lies about 0.33m below the existing level.
G P Stell and M Harman 1988.


G P and M Stell and Harman, 1988, Buildings of St Kilda, 45, no. 16 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8255.

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  • --- Bibliographic reference: G P and M Stell and Harman. 1988. Buildings of St Kilda. 45, no. 16.

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Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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