Field Visit

Date 7 March 1995

Event ID 1033749

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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RCAHMS Afforestable Land Survey, Rogart

The footings of five hut-circles are disposed along the crest of the flat-topped ridge to the N of Dremergid.

At the S end of the group there is a crescentic setting of three hut-circles. The central house is a massive stone-walled structure (ROG95 3) measuring 12.5m in diameter within a boulder-faced bank 2.1m in thickness and 1.2m in height. The interior is dished and partially levelled into the gently-rising ground on the NW. The bank terminals on either side of the entrance, which is on the SSE, expand to about 5m in thickness. The thickening of the bank terminals is on the outside of the hut-circle, and appears to be secondary. A shallow penannular ditch, measuring about 2.4m across and 0.3m in depth, encloses the hut-circle, fading away to the E of the entrance, but with a terminal in line with the side of the entrance on the W. There is a narrow berm between the outer face of the hut-circle bank and the inner lip of the ditch, and a low upcast bank is visible outside the ditch. In the interior of the hut-circle there is a small oval hut and what may be a subrectangular structure. While the smaller hut appears to post-date the hut-circle, the relationship of the subrectangular structure to the hut-circle is not clear.

The ditch on the S side of the large hut-circle has been cut by a second hut-circle (ROG95 4) measuring 9.9m in diameter within a stony bank spread to 1.7m in thickness and 0.6m in height. To the NW the ditch is slighted by cord rig (NC70NW 18.03) which also runs up into the interior of a further hut-circle (ROG95 5) whose ESE side has been removed, but may have measured about 12.5m in diameter internally.

There are two further hut-circles (ROG95 6, 9) which appear to have been slighted in the same way, surviving as C-shaped arcs of bank, with smooth, presumably cultivated ground, in the interiors. These two structures would originally have been quite large, measuring about 13.8m by 11.7m (ROG95 6) and 12.5m in diameter (ROG95 9) internally.

(ROG95 3-6, 9)

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 7 March 1995