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Field Visit
Date 2 March 1972
Event ID 661397
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/661397
NH62NE 6 655 269.
Centred at NH 655 269 on the generally W-facing slopes of Carn Mor is a field system, two contemporary stone walled huts (A & B) and a mutilated, probably contemporary cairn with cist.
Hut 'A' measures c. 14.0m N-S by 11.0m transversely between the centres of a denuded wall spread to c. 2.0m in the S where it is best preserved. There is no trace of walling in the NE, suggesting that the hut was either being built or dismantled. The entrance is not evident.
Hut 'B' is circular and measures c. 8.0m between the centres of a wall spread to c. 2.0m. The entrance in the E arc is ill-defined. The wall on the S side of the entrance projects to the E for about 2.0m possibly forming a windbreak.
The field system is marked by stone clearance heaps and a few ill-defined lynchets with the boundaries of the fields ill-defined because of peat build up. Two fields were measured at 40.0m x 15.0m and 30.0m by 30.0m.
Inconspicuously placed within the field system at NH 6549 2679 is a probably contemporary cairn measuring c. 8.5m in diameter with two stones of a kerb visible in the E arc and three others in the SW. The centre has been howked and three slabs of a cist lie displaced on top of the partly filled excavation.
About 18.0m SE of the cairn is a heather-covered mound c. 6.0m in diameter, which has four blocks, each about 2.0m apart around the S arc. It cannot be ascertained if it is another cairn or a clearance heap. Huts & cairn surveyed at 1/10560.
Visited by OS (A A) 2 March 1972.
