1112477 |
RECORDING |
FIELD VISIT |
This hut-circle is situated at the foot of a slope 250m to the E of Minera farmstead (ND13SE 110). It is crossed by the E boundary dyke and modern fence enclosing what were three cultivated fields, now amalgamated into one. The hut-circle measures 16.7m from N to S by 14.5m transversely within a wall reduced to a bank 4.8m in maximum thickness by 0.8m in height. Several stones protrude from the bank, which is most prominent around the E half, outside the area enclosed by the dyke. The interior has been levelled into the slope to a depth of 1.5m on the E. No entrance could be detected, but it may well lie at the point where the dyke and fence cross the wall of the hut-circle on the SSW. [...] |
August 1997 |
1112537 |
RECORDING |
FIELD VISIT |
This cairn is situated on the leading edge of a peat-covered terrace on the E side of the valley of the Burn of Houstry, and commands extensive views from the NW to the SW. The cairn, which measures 13m in diameter by 0.9m in height, is grass and heather grown, but stone is visible protruding through most of its surface, and also where it has been dug into on the W and E. A square-based marker cairn some 1.3m in height has been built on the summit of the cairn, and a small pen or shelter has been constructed in the disturbance on the NE. [...] |
August 1997 |
1086327 |
RECORDING |
FIELD VISIT |
The site of this broch was resurveyed for the OS 1:2500 revision programme. It is situated in the yard on the NW side of one of the abandoned farmsteads of Achnagoul. As described by the OS surveyors, the broch probably measures about 17m in diameter overall, and the entrance, with some of its lintels still in place, and part of the inner face of the wall are visible on the SE. As it survives today, the remains of the broch form the core of a much larger mound about 24m across, and it is probably the scarp delineating the mound on the SW that was identified as the remains of outer defences. While the mound might incorporate the remains of an outer wall, it is more likely to be composed largely of rubble derived from the broch itself. The farmstead comprises the ruin of a range situated on the SE side of the yard enclosing the broch. The first edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1872, sheet xxxix) shows this building roofed, together with a smaller building immediately to the SE and another to the N, immediately adjacent to the broch. The main range was still roofed in 1906 (Caithness 1906, sheet xxxix). [...] |
August 1997 |