Monument record 505 - ST KILDA VILLAGE, CLEITEAN 122-3

Summary

Two cleits

Location

Grid reference NF 09920 99500 (point)
Map sheet NF09NE
Island Hirta, St Kilda
Parish HARRIS, Western Isles

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Full Description

NF19NW 21.18 0992 9950.

Cleit 122, which lies well outside the head dyke to the NW of the burial-ground, is the only building in the village area with an intact attached cell (123), the smaller cell being linked by a low level passage in the NE sector of the parent structure.
The outer walls of Cleit 122 are battered and buttressed on the S side. The doorway is at the W end and has a slight outward splay with groups of stones on each side. For a cleit the entrance is tall (1.47m) and the interior roomy; it is 3.35m long, 2.21m wide, and the corbelled walls are lintelled at a height of 2.69m above the floor. A later wall has been built against the inner face of the E end-wall and the original internal length of the building is likely to have been about 4.25m.
In the NE corner a low lintelled passage about 0.43m high, 0.53m wide, and 1.12m long gives access to the adjacent subcircular cell. This cell, which measures 2.18m in maximum diameter, is of corbelled construction, and rises to a height of 1.55m above the existing floor-level, Above the entrance there is a small opening 0.41m square, possibly a window and not merely the result of dilapidation.
K Williamson and J M Boyd 1960; G P Stell and M Harman 1988.


K and J M Williamson and Boyd, 1960, St Kilda Summer, 59-60 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12816.

G P and M Stell and Harman, 1988, Buildings of St Kilda, 46, no. 18 (Bibliographic reference). SWE8255.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: K and J M Williamson and Boyd. 1960. St Kilda Summer. 59-60.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: G P and M Stell and Harman. 1988. Buildings of St Kilda. 46, no. 18.

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Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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