Skye, Greshornish
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Skye, Greshornish
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 11178
Site Number NG35SW 6
NGR NG 3458 5497
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11178
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG35SW 6 3458 5497.
(NG 3458 5498) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 6"map, (1969)
A circular stone-walled hut measuring c. 6.5m in diameter between the centre of a wall spread to c.1.5m which is heavily obscured by peat. Occasional outer facing stones are visible in the E and S. The entrance is not evident.
About 20.0m SE of the hut are traces of a wall which may be contemporary.
Visited by OS (RL) 6 October 1971
(RCAHMS 1928, visited 1915).
Field Visit (24 May 1915)
Hut Circle, Greshornish.
On a shelf on the hillside rising from the western shore of Loch Greshornish about ¾ mile north-north-east of Greshornish House, and 150 yards from, and 50 feet higher than, the loch, is a hut circle 17 feet in diameter internally with a wall 3 feet thick, the stones of which stand about 9 inches above the grass.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 24 May 1915.
Skye xvi (unnoted).
Field Visit (25 July 1990)
What may be a small hut-circle is situated on a terrace on the SE side of a knoll some 120m E of the shore of Loch Greshornish and 800m NNE of Greshornish Farm. It measures about 5m in diameter within a low stony bank 1.3m in thickness and 0.2m in height. A rickle of stones is visible at the edge of the terrace to the S.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 25 July 1990.
