Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649336

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC61SW 13 6122 1135 and 6117 1139.

Hut-circle, 12m by 10m, heather-covered, with no clear entrance.

R J Mercer 1978.

At NC 6122 1135 and at NC 6117 1139, in the upper slopes of a W-facing hillside, are two hut circles (A and B respectively) and accompanying field clearance. (See NC61SW 5). Both huts are heather-covered.

'A' measures about 7.0m in diameter within a wall reduced to a rubble spread 2.0m broad and up to 0.3m high; the entrance is in the SSE.

'B' set back into the slope, measures 8.0m by 7.0m within a wall reduced to a rubble spread 1.5m to 2.0m broad and up to 0.4m high; the entrance is in the SSW on the line of the long axis.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS 30 October 1980.