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Field Visit
Date 29 March 1977
Event ID 1168945
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1168945
NC63NE 14 688 363.
(NC 688 365) Enclosures (NR) (five shown) (NC 689 362) Enclosures (NR) (four shown)
OS 6"map, (1963)
This is a settlement of ten hut circles (A-J), including a newly recognised one (J) at NC 6997 3619, situated on a west-facing hillside. Re-afforestation of the general area obscures or has destroyed many of the field clearance heaps.
Huts A, C-E and I have all been mutilated to some extent by deep-ploughing and tree-planting - recoverable details of the last one in particular are very scant; the remaining huts are in clearings. Excepting 'F', they are circular and internal dimensions range between 7.0 and 12.0m diameter; an entrance to most is still intact, and is from the south quarter - in 'B's case the entrance is clubbed, with a lining slab evident in its west side. The walls are generally reduced to a low, overgrown spread 2.0 - 2.5m broad, but in two noticeably robust huts (B and C) stand 1.2m high, in the east arc, and 0.6m high respectively. 'F' is very well-defined and measures 12.0 by 10.5m within a boulder-faced heather-covered wall, 0.8m high and an estimated 1.5m main width. The entrance from the SSE is on the line of the longer axis and is splayed; the passage is perhaps 2.6m long and opposing edging slabs give a width 0.8m inside increasing to 2.0m outside.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Hut J - Surveyed at 1:10 560.
Visited by OS (J M) 29 March 1977.
