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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 649270
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/649270
NC50NE 39 5782 0518.
NC 5782 0518. The fragmentary remains of a large enclosure 16.5m in diameter with an entrance 1.0m wide in the SE side. Nearly the whole of the E side of the enclosure has been destroyed; in the centre are the outlines of a small rectangular building 5.8 x 2.4m. This may be the site described by the RCAHMS (1911) as a hut circle 26ft in internal diameter, since this is not otherwise identifiable in the area described.
RCAHMS 1911; Visited by OS (W D J) 4 July 1963.
All that remains of this alleged enclosure is an arc of a bank, possibly a tumbled wall, spread to 2.5m broad and 0.5m high which measures 18.0m across internally. There is no certain trace of the bank continuing to form a circle. Within the arc is a rectangular shieling-like structure 6.0m by 3.0m. The site is overgrown with bracken.
Resurveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 26 July 1976.
From the present ground remains the site appears to consist of a small rectangular footing as described above, with an arc of banking to the S; probably constructed during stone clearance of the area. There is no clear indication that this bank formed an enclosure. An oval hut circle 20.0m to the SE is possibly the one noted by the RCAHM (see NC50NE 13). Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J B) 15 March 1979.
Scheduled with NC50NE 13-14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 38, 46, 54-6 and 81-2 as The Ord, chambered cairns, cairns, settlements and field systems.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 February 2002.