Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694869

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR45SE 27 4685 5126

NR 468 513. A circular enclosure lies 150m SE of Mullach Ban. It is 9.15m in diameter within turf-grown, spread walls 0.91m to 2.75m thick, incorporating boulders. The entrance, in the SE, is flanked by slabs and closed by a slab. The circle is partly enclosed by a dyke.

I D Shanks 1976.

At NR 4685 5126, in a slight depression on a low rocky ridge, is an oval enclosure, possibly a hut circle. It measures 8.5m WNW-ESE by 7.5m transversely within a wall 0.5m maximum height. Large inner and outer facing slabs are visible intermittently indicating a wall thickness of about 2.0m. There is an entrance 1.9m wide, flanked by slabs on edge, in the ESE arc. Loose stone lies about the interior. Abutting the enclosure are lazy beds, and a sinuous field bank fringing early modern cultivation runs past the south-east arc.

There is no evidence of ancient land use.

The somewhat crude construction and the proximity of 18/19th century fields cast doubt on the classification of hut circle.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (NKB), 20 March 1979.