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Field Visit
Date 9 June 1994
Event ID 629974
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/629974
A group of eleven grass-grown mounds and one subsquare hut lies in a hollow between two ridges 150m to the N of the summit of Compass Hill. Stretches of an earthen bank enclose the hollow on the NNE, SSW and SE, and four of the mounds are attached to this enclosure bank. Part of the hollow has been cultivated and there are traces of several furrows aligned N and S; only one mound lies within the area of cultivation, and this appears to have been truncated by furrows on its E and W sides. The mounds are undoubtedly the remains of collapsed huts, and some of them are characterised by a dished interior, while others are surrounded by a turf-stripping halo. All but one of the mounds are circular, and range between 4.7m and 8.5m in diameter and 0.25 and 0.7m in height; the one exception is an oval mound which is the largest in the group, and measures 10.3m from N to S by 7.7m transversely overall. The subsquare hut lies on the E edge of the cultivated ground and measures 5.5m across within an earthen bank 1.4m in thickness and 0.5m in height; a short stretch of bank extends away from its SW end.
(Canna 339-50).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 9 June 1994.
