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Archaeology Notes
Date 1961 - 1974
Event ID 651904
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651904
NC92NW 3 900 265.
('A' : NC 9004 2666 'B' : NC 9009 2666 'C' : NC 9010 2667 'D' : NC 9000 2655 'E' : NC 9001 2651 'F' : NC 9002 2648) Hut Circles (NR) (NC 9002 2649) Earth House (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)
A settlement of six hut-circles discovered during field investigation (Information from OS (J L D) 22 May 1961), on either side of the Allt Bad Ru'fin. Five of the huts are similar with heather-covered walls spread up to 2.5m. They are both oval and Circular, and vary from 7.0m to 12.5m, internal diameter, with entrances in the SE.
The sixth circle, 'F', is of the Kilphedir Hut II type, with a souterrain attached on the north. The hut measures 7m in diameter within a wall 1.2m thick and 0.5m high which is revetted on both faces by upright boulders. The entrance-passage in the SE is 3.5m long and 0.6m wide flanked by boulders, some of which block the passage. Abutting the hut on the SW, are two rectangular structures defined by boulder walls. The larger measures 7m NE-SW by 3m and the smaller 3m by 2.5m. The walls are 0.2m high. The souterrain is in a turf-covered, stony mound some 7m in diameter and 1m high which abuts the hut on the north. The roof has collapsed in the centre of the mound revealing the lintels and side walls of part of the structure. The cavity is 1.2m wide, but debris prevents the depth and extent being determined. Another lintel slab lies in situ 2m SW of the cavity.
Using the Kilphedir excavation as an analogy the sequence of occupation would appear to be a settlement of 'simple' huts about 500 BC followed around 130 BC by the single more substantial hut with its souterrain, probably on the site of one of the earlier huts. This settlement is as described by the previous field investigator except that a further hut ('G') was discovered close by hut 'F', with its SE arc overlaid by the larger of the 'rectangular structures' abutting 'F'. It measures 9.0m in diameter within a denuded wall, overgrown with peat and heather. The entrance is in the south arc. Associated cultivation is restricted to a few scattered clearance heaps and indeterminate areas of smooth stone free ground.
Information from OS.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
(H Fairhurst and D B Taylor 1974)
