River Rha, Skye
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name River Rha, Skye
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 11358
Site Number NG46NW 1
NGR NG 4050 6608
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11358
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmuir
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (29 May 1914)
Hut Circle.
Within a few feet of the south side of the road from Uig to Staffin, about 1 ¾ miles north by east of the former place as the crow flies, at an elevation of 500 feet above sea-level, on a grassy slope, is a hut circle measuring 17 feet in diameter, surrounded by a bank 6 feet broad and 1 foot in height.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 29 May 1914.
OS map: Skye vii (unnoted).
Field Visit (20 September 1971)
NG46NW 1 4050 6608.
(NG 4050 6608) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 6"map, (1965)
At NG 4050 6608 levelled into a SE-facing slope is a circular stone-walled hut measuring 7.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread all round to c.30.m. The entrance is not evident but may have been in the NE at the change of slope. The surrounding area shows signs of lazy beds which may have caused a break in the SE of the hut wall but no clearance heaps or signs of contemporary cultivation are apparent.
Visited by OS (I S S) 20 September 1971.
(RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914)
