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Field Visit
Date 11 March 1991
Event ID 1107945
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1107945
There are two hut-circles on a terrace on the N side of the township of Achan (NC82NW 12).
A. NC 8197 2732 This hut-circle measures 7.1m from NW to SE by 6.7m transversely within a bank 7.1m in thickness and 0.4m in height. The entrance is on the SE and the S side of the interior has been built up to create a level floor.
(KILD91 95)
B. NC 8205 2730 The hut-circle identified by the OS at this location is no more than a natural terrace.
C. NC 8202 2728 This hut-circle measures 9.4m in diameter within a bank 2.5m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The interior is levelled into the slope. A bank cuts across the interior from E to W and there is a hut in the E side of the interior (NC82NW 12, KILD91 97).
Extending for about 100m to the N and NW of the hut-circles there is a thin scatter of small cairns measuring up to 4m in diameter and 0.3m in height.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 11 March 1991.
