Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651084

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC80NW 8 8145 0985.

(NC 8145 0985) Two contiguous circles shown but not annotated.

OS 6"map, (1969)

Some 150 yards W of the hut circle (NC80NW 7) is a stone-walled oblong structure. It contains the ruins of a circular structure.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

A stone-walled enclosure generally as planned by RCAHM, except that the internal "circular structure" appears to be a fortuitous arrangement of tumble. It measures internally 13 5m NW-SE by 5.4m within a wall of base stones about 2.0m thick widening to 3.0m at the entrance in the SE side. There is no evidence of cultivation in the immediate vicinity.

This structure does not resemble a hut circle in either shape or construction. The inner face, where best-preserved, comprises stones laid flat with up to three roughly-laid courses, whereas a hut wall is invariably formed of stones on edge. Though no galleries can be seen, it is similar in some respects to the Caithness "wags", see NC80NE 21 & NC91SW 1.

Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS ((W D J) 25 April 1964 and (J B) 8 December 1975.