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