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Field Visit
Date 5 May 1991
Event ID 1107990
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1107990
There are at least three hut-circles (B-D) and an enclosure (A) set on a series of terraces. amidst a scatter of small cairns and banks to the N of the Abhainn na Frithe.
A. NC 8507 2969 This enclosure measures 9.3m in diameter within a turf bank 1.3m in thickness and 0.2m in height. It may be a decayed turf stell.
(KILD91 38)
B. NC 8513 2702 This hut-circle measures 9.5m from NW to SE by 8.3m transversely within a bank 3m in thickness and 0.7m in height. The entrance is on the SE and the interior has been levelled into the slope. (KILD91 39)
C. NC 8524 2704 This hut-circle measures 10.7m from WNW to ESE by 9.2m transversely within a stone-faced bank 3m in thickness and 0.7m in height. The entrance is on the ESE and the interior has been levelled into the slope. Rabbit burrows into the bank reveal an earth and stone content.
(KILD91 278)
D. NC 8536 2704 This hut-circle measures 10.2m from NW to SE by 9.2m transversely within a stony bank 3.2m in thickness and 0.6m in height. The entrance is on the SE, outside which there may be a denuded baffle-wall. A hut, 5.5m in diameter, occupies the SW of the interior. There is a gap in the bank to the N outside which, and abutting the hut-circle bank, is a sub-rectangular hut measuring 5m from N to S by 3m transversely within a bank 1.7m in thickness and 0.4m in height. A drain runs around the N end of the hut.
(KILD91 276, 277)
There are small cairns measuring up to 6m in diameter and 0.7m in height scattered amidst and to the W of the hut-circles. To the NW of hut-circle 'C' there are short lengths of bank and lynchets although no plots were seen.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 5 May 1991.
