Eilean na Circe (3)
Everything I know about this place, comes from the Canmore website, which tells us that the entire summit-area, 34m in length, is enclosed by a drystone wall about 1.2m thick and up to 1.3m high.  Within the enclosure there are the remains of two drystone buildings.  The more substantial measures 9.6m by 5.3m over walls 0.7m to 0.9m thick and up to 1.1m high.  It has opposed doorways in the side-walls, which also include four probable cruck-slots, and in the south-west end-wall there is a slot for an end-cruck. At right angles to and 2m north of this building there is a more ruinous one, 7.8m by 4.3m over all, which is featureless except for a doorway at the centre of the south-west wall.  It appears to have been built across the line of an earlier building, part of which was retained as an annexe.

Unfortunately, the drone isn't going to be able to see any of this detail under the shrubbery, but it is interesting to note that the site has evidently been used for a long time, with more than one period of occupation.

A 'cruck' or 'cruck blade' incidentally, is a curved timber, set upright with one end on the ground, that supports a roof.  They are usually arranged in pairs, meeting over the centre line of the building.  The stone walls of such buildings are usually built around them, to help hold them in place.  Once the building is a ruin, the vertical slot in the wall where the cruck formerly stood, is called a 'cruck slot'!
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