Archaeology Notes

Event ID 654998

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND34SW 51 30983 42891.

At ND 3098 4287, set into a SW-facing slope, is a circular stone-walled hut heavily covered by heather, measuring 8.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to 2.0m. The entrance is in the SW. In the vicinity are one or two small peat-covered mounds with some stone clearance heaps from contemporary cultivation plots although the depth of peat hides their true identity.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (I S S) 14 March 1972.

(Centred ND 309 428) Settlement (NR) (See ND34SW 44 and ND34SW 45 for other hut circles)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Surveyed at 1:1000.

K Sabine 1980.

Scheduled with hut-circles ND34SW 44 and ND34SW 45.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 October 1999.

This hut-circle, which is situated in moorland about 480m SE of South Yarrows farmsteading (ND34SW 474), lies at the foot of a W-facing slope. It measures up to 7.5m in diameter within a stony bank 2.5m in thickness and 0.5m in height, and there is a possible entrance on the SW. Three small grass-grown cairns, measuring up to 2.5m in diameter, stand about 20m to the N and NE of the hut-circle.

(YARROWS04 213)

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 29 June 2004