Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664636

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH79SW 3 7089 9144 and 710 914.

(NH 7089 9144) Hut Circle (NR)

OS 25" map, (1968)

(NH 710 914) Cairns (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A group of about a dozen small mounds to the W of which are the remains of an oval hut circle with an entrance in the SE.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

One of the cairns was excavated by Lord Migdale in 1959. It was circular, measuring 18' in diameter, within a kerb of stones which did not seem to contribute to the stability of the cairn. The excavation revealed that it was a pile of stones with no sign of structure within.

A Graham 1960.

A mutilated stone-walled hut measuring c.13.5m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to c.3.0m on the N and S arcs but barely visible elsewhere. The entrance is no longer apparent. A wall, of much later date, skirts the N side of the hut.

The 'mounds' noted by the RCAHMS, including the one excavated by Lord Migdale, are stone clearance heaps, separated from the hut by a gully but probably from contemporary cultivation plots.

Visited by OS (R L) 21 October 1969.