Archaeology Notes

Event ID 782515

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS05SE 32 09717 52143.

NS 097 521. Barr Hill, round structure and field system.

Sponsor: Buteshire Natural History Society

A Hannah and E Proudfoot 1996

NS 0970 5218 Round structure: Located on the east slope of Barr Hill, near foot. This is a stone-built circular structure, c. 8m diameter. Complex system of field dykes and large clearance cairns in vicinity. No records. Probably prehistoric.

Information from Bute Natural History Society Deserted Settlement Survey (1991-9)

(RCAHMS WP000273)

This hut circle is situated on the leading edge of a terrace low down on the E flank of Barr Hill. It measures 8.5m in diameter within a wall reduced to a grass-grown bank 1.5m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height. Both inner and outer facing-stones are intermittently visible in the bank and there is an entrance on the E. The hut circle lies within an extensive field-system containing plots of rig-and-furrow, some of them enclosed, and large clearance cairns. An area of quarrying lies about 65m N of the hut circle.

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, IP) 18 March 2009.