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Field Visit
Date 9 September 1997 - 8 October 1997
Event ID 1043858
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1043858
There are three hut-circles, a building, banks, an oval enclosure and some small cairns on a low ridge of improved grassland about 500m E of Upperton Farm. The hut-circles range in diameter from 9.8m to 10.4m within stony banks about 2.5m in thickness and between 0.35m and 0.5m in height. They have entrances on the SE, and in two cases the terminal of the bank on the S side of the entrance expands in thickness to about 4m (URQ97 408, 410). The building is much reduced and measures 10.9m from ENE to WSW by 6.2m transversely over stony banks 1.4m in thickness and up to 0.3m in height (URQ97 468). The small cairns cover an area of about 2ha of pasture between the northernmost hut-circle (NH 3970 3114, URQ97 410) and a track that runs along the S edge of the site, some 200m to the SW. The oval enclosure (NH 3961 3109), which is defined by a low stony bank, has a small cairn on its NE arc, and may be coeval with this phase of clearance.
(URQ97 408-410, 468)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 9 September and 8 October 1997
