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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 662848
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/662848
NH68SE 10 centred 669 822.
On the moor between Aultnamain Inn and Blackpark there are a good many tumuli.
ISSFC 1888.
Centred at NH 669 822 is a settlement of one circular (A) and three oval (B-D) stone-walled huts and contemporary field system. Hut diameters are given between wall centres.
Hut 'A' is ill-defined by a wall of indeterminate thickness and measures c.11.0m in diameter. The simple entrance is in the E.
'B', the best preserved, measures c.16.0m from the W through the simple entrance in the E, by c.14.0m. The wall is spread to c.3.0m all round.
'C' measures c.12.0m from the W through the simple entrance in the E, by c. 10.0m. The denuded wall is spread to about 3.0m all round.
'D' measures c.14.5m from the W through the simple entrance in the E, by c.12.0m. The wall is spread to c.3.0m all round.
The field system is comprised of stone clearance heaps with an occasional lynchet. Peat growth generally obscures details of cultivation plots but two to the E of hut 'B' where they are best preserved each measure c.25.0m x 25.0m.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (A A) 30 October 1970.
