Corriegarth Lodge
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Corriegarth Lodge
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12519
Site Number NH51NW 2
NGR NH 507 169
NGR Description Centred on NH 507 169
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12519
- Council Highland
- Parish Boleskine And Abertarff
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH51NW 2 507 169.
There are numerous hut circles and an "immense artificial-looking hill" opposite Boleskine manse.
W Jolly 1885
Centred at NH 507 169 is a settlement of ten stone-walled huts (A-K), and a contemporary field system. Most of the huts are mutilated. Most exhibit occasional outer facing stones, but few have inner faces visible. Entrances are in the E quadrant (where visible). All diameters are given between wall centres.
Hut 'A' is 16.5m in diameter with a well-defined entrance 3.0m wide. The wall averages 5.0m thick.
'B' is 16.0m in diameter with a wall spread to 3.0m. The entrance is blocked by modern clearance.
'C' is adjacent to, and of the same dimensions as 'B'.
'D' is 15.0m in diameter and has a large boulder in the wall is the SE which may represent the S side of the otherwise destroyed entrance. Twenty metres to the N is a stony platform which is uncertainly a smaller hut or a robbed clearance heap.
'E' is oval, measuring 12.0m NW-SE by 10.0m. It is overlaid by a fence and the entrance is not evident. The wall is spread to 3.0m.
'F', severely mutilated in the SE, is 16.5m in diameter; no entrance is visible.
'G' is 10.5m in diameter with the wall spread to 2.5m, and is in good condition.
'H' is the best preserved and is 18.0m in diameter, with the wall spread to 4.0m.
'J' is 14.5m in diameter and has its W side removed.
'K', 16.0m in diameter, has its NE arc removed.
The field system is best defined between huts G and E where, despite later use, the clearance heaps, walls and lynchets are still well preserved.
The "immense artificial-looking hill" noted by Jolly in undoubtedly a prominent conical glacial deposit at NH 530 154 named "Cnoc-an-t-Sithein".
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (I M T) 19 June 1973
(NH 507 169) Settlement & Field System (NR) (nine huts shown)
OS 25"map, (1975)
The settlement and field system are as described by the previous field investigator. Hut 'J' is not shown on the OS 25" and was not located during field perambulation.
Published survey (25") correct.
Visited by OS (J B) 3 May 1979
Archaeological Evaluation (16 December 2013 - 19 December 2013)
Headland Archaeology undertook a trial trench evaluation and topographical survey of areas potentially impacted by upgrades to the public highway related to the construction of Corriegarth Windfarm, loch Mhor (Planning Application No. 07/00673/FULIN), situated some 11 miles north-east of Fort Augustus.
No archaeological features were exposed during the trial trench evaluation of land adjacent to a cairnfield (Site 32) that will be disturbed by the construction work. The topographical survey accurately mapped upstanding archaeological features at Sites 11, 17 and 18 and will be utilised for the subsequent construction design to minimise impact of these sites.
Excavation was undertaken of a 19th century croft (Site 1) as a second phase of works and will be reported on separately. The excavation revealed no additional archaeological remains beyond those associated with the known, upstanding croft site.
Headland Archaeology Ltd
