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Field Visit
Date 4 September 1997
Event ID 1043859
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1043859
There are two hut-circles, some small cairns, and four boundary dykes in improved grassland about 450m ENE of Upperton Farm. The hut-circles and small cairns have been recorded as part of NH33SE 1 by the OS and labelled M and N respectively, but are separated here because of the dislocation of the site by afforestation. The former measures 9.5m in diameter within a wall reduced to a stony bank, but with some external facings visible on the W. The bank measures a maximum of 3m in thickness and 0.6m in height on either side of the entrance on the SE (URQ97 413). The latter hut-circle is oval on plan and measures 12.1m from NW to SE by 11.3m transversely within a stony bank 2.6m in thickness and 0.4m in height. Its entrance is on the SE, but it has been damaged by the placing of a feeder bin on the S terminal of the wall (URQ97 412). The small cairns extend over an area measuring 200m from E to W by 100m transversely. Four different boundary dykes describe a curvilinear course across the site, of which two are cut by the 19th century dyke NH43SW 73) that runs across the pasture from SSW to NNE. These two appear to represent different phases of a head-dyke that also encompasses the township at Cnoc nan Ceard to the E (NH43SW 14). A third describes a sinuous course just N of the two hut-circles, and a fourth sinuous dyke runs in and out of the conifer plantation on the N. (URQ97 412-413)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 4 September 1997
