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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 659377

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG77SE 2 7861 7163.

At NG 7861 7163 on the saddle of Creag nam Braid at 175 ft O.D. near two 0.7m high drystone field enclosures there are the heather covered remains of a hut circle measuring 7.8m inner diameter, with walls 1.5m thick by 0.5m high composed of large stones forming the inner and outer faces with small stone infilling. The entrance which is in the south east is 1.1m wide and the western side of it has been extended about 1.5m at right angles to the wall to form a windbreak.

Visited by OS (R D) 15 April 1965.

Hut circle, 8m to 9m in diameter, stone walls.

R Wentworth 1989.

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