Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650901

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC74SW 1 7013 4128.

(NC 7013 4128) Enclosure (NR)

OS 6" map, (1963)

A hut circle or enclosure discovered during fieldwork, on a north-west-facing slope.

Visited by OS (J L D) 11 May 1960.

This hut circle, is in a clearing on a re-afforested hillside. It occupies a slightly elevated stance and is 11.0m by 10.5m inside a wall 0.7m in maximum height, with estimated main width of 1.4m increasing to 2.5m in the sides of a clubbed entrance in the south east which is, on the line of the longer axis and shows several largish stones in the exterior. The hut is otherwise completely heather covered.

Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (J M) 23 May 1977.

Scheduled (with NC64SE 7, NC64SE 15, NC64SE 16 and NC74SW 2) as Rosal, hut circles, Naver Forest, Strathnaver.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 7 November 2000.