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Archaeology Notes

Date  - 1976

Event ID 651235

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651235

NC82SE 12 890 241.

('A': NC 8909 2410) Hut Circle (NR) ('B': NC 8935 2412) Hut Circle (NR)

OS 6"map, (1963)

On the south-facing slopes of Learable Hill are two hut circles ('A' and 'B') and an associated field system.

'A' is 6.5m in diameter within a low stone wall with intermittent facing stones visible. The wall appears to have been 1.4m wide in the SW widening to 2.3m at the simple entrance in the SE.

'B' is 10.0m in diameter within a heather-covered wall spread to 2.0; the entrance is in the SE.

A field system of eleven hectares surrounds hut 'A'. It is denoted by field clearance heaps and occasional lynchets. A few plots are discernible with a clearly defined example measuring 30m x 30m. Many of the field clearance heaps have been cleared out from the centre, and one of these, near the top of the hill, now forms an oval depression 1.2m by 1.8m internally. This was mistaken for a hut by RCAHMS (RCAHMS 1911) Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 29 May 1961 and (JB) 23 December 1976

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