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Field Visit
Date 7 April 1995
Event ID 629972
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/629972
(Location amended to Centred NG 2783 0597). A large oval enclosure occupies an area of gently sloping ground on the SW flank of Compass Hill and contains a group of seven huts and three mounds. For most of its circuit, the enclosure is defined by a stony bank, now partially clad in heather, which runs from the foot of a rock outcrop on the E, but peters out to the N where the ground rises sharply to a terrace above. Two small plots of lazy-bed cultivation can be seen within the enclosure and a stretch of grass-grown stony bank runs from NE to SW across the interior, forming a link between several of the huts. These huts are set on top of low mounds, which are undoubtedly the remains of earlier huts. The huts on top are subrectangular on plan, the largest measuring 6.5m from NE to SW by 4.6m transversely within a faced bank 1.2m in thickness and 0.9m in height; the mound beneath is 8.5m in diameter. To the S, two low circular mounds may be all that now survives of another two huts, although it is possible that they may be stack-stands.
An oval mound lies immediately to the S of the enclosure bank, its N end apparently overlain by it, and another subrectangular hut and two low circular mounds lie on a terrace to the SE of the enclosure.
(Canna 366-379, 650).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 7 April 1995.
