Fraser House Site (Eigg Mountain Settlement History)

 

This cellar south of the Main Road we are attributing to Ranald Fraser.  (I am not convinced that there wasn’t another Fraser site further east, off the short gravel road running south of the school.)

 

This cellar shares the site with a smaller, possibly older cellar to the east.  Both are roughly in the position of a building on the 1893 Geological Survey Map.  However, given the way that map was drawn the square could easily have been meant to represent the barn of the A. Fraser house just to the east.  In that case these buildings would have been abandoned by 1893.

 

The cellar is 12 ft by 24 ft with the 24 ft wall oriented east at 116 degrees.  It has rock walls most visible on the north side.  The foundation appears to have extended further to the north making the building 28 ft N-S by 24 E-W.  The land slopes away gently to the southeast.

 

The following photo is taken looking north-west (?) over the cellar

 

The following photo shows exposed rock and the water filled cellar.

 

 

Another view of the water filled cellar

 

 

May 3, 2008