Objects
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Byre floor
The byre floor at Jake Munn’s farmhouse in Baugh. The whitewashed channels for sweeping the dung out can be seen. The wall construction, using lime mortar is also shown, as well as the fixture for restraining cattle. By kind permission of Andy Cameron, the present owner. -
Old bridge, Baugh
This bridge, which still stands, was marked on the 1878 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey. Towards the shore, there was a ford and a footbridge. Known as Drochaid na Fadhlach, it was said to have been built around 1810 (Angus MacLean, Scarinish, press. comm.). -
Dun site: Dun Ibrig
DUN IBRIG
Evan W. MacKie
NM026444. The fort stands on a slight rocky rise amidst flat land. An outer rampart surrounds the base of the knoll and the outline of the central fort can just be made out. Dun Ibrig is distinctly egg-shaped and traces of a probable mural gallery can be seen in two places. In view of its shape the site should perhaps be classed as a galleried dun rather than a broch although, in this case, the distinction is not likely to be fundamental.
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1963, pp.20–1
Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 112. -
Bait holes, Baugh
A fishing rock known as Carraig MhicEòghainn ‘McEwan’s fishing rock’