Field Visit
Date 24 April 1974
Event ID 683665
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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NO15NW 13 c.149 585.
Centred at NO 149 585 is a settlement of nine stone-walled huts (A - J) with a few stone clearance heaps and ruinous walls in the vicinity from contemporary cultivation.
'A' measures 11.0m in diameter between the centres of a poorly-preserved wall with an entrance in the SSE. The E arc is disturbed by a modern wall.
'B' is oval, measuring 9.0m N-S by 7.5m between the centres of a wall spread to 2.5m, partially destroyed in the W arc. The entrance is in the S.
'C' is oval, 12.0m N-S by 10.5m between the centres of an ill-defined wall. The SW arc is mutilated and no entrance is visible.
'D' is 5.0m in internal diameter with an entrance in the SSE. Occasional inner facing stones survive in a wall of indefinite thickness. The centre is bisected by a ruinous wall built across the hut NE-SW.
'E' is a "Dalrulzian" hut, 9.0m in internal diameter and 16.5m between the centres of the outer wall. The ill- defined entrance is in the S. 'F' abuts on the W arc of 'E' and measures 11.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall of uncertain thickness. The entrance is in the SW. 'G', crossed by a modern wall, is 12.0m in diameter between wall centres. The entrance is not evident.
'H' is crossed by the same wall, and the E half is scarcely discernible. It measures c. 14.0 in diameter. No entrance evident.
'J' is 13.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall of uncertain thickness. The entrance is in the mutilated S arc.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (AA) 24 April 1974
