Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652971

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC96SE 18 9748 6347.

At NC 9748 6347 there are the remains of a hut circle, measuring 7.5m NE-SW by 5.0m E-W. About eight earthfast stones remain in the S segment, where a 1.5m wide entrance is visible; the N periphery exists only as a darker crop mark. To the N of this feature there are the possible remains of two shielings. A number of field clearance heaps lie adjacent.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 27 November 1964 and (J L D) 6 April 1961.

(NC 9748 6347) Hut Circle (NR)

OS 6"map, (1963)

The remains of a hut circle, as described by OS field surveyor (R D). Associated field clearance is denoted by a disturbed heap of stones, 11.0m NE of the hut, and by several slight stony mounds nearby. Some 35.0m NNE of the hut circle are the remains of a crude bothy-type structure.

Revised at 1:10560.

Visited by OS (J M) 11 August 1981.

Chest high bracken obscures this hut-circle, which was noted during a pre-afforestation survey of Sandside Estate.

C Dagg 13 October 1998; NMRS MS 1008/3, no.35