Loch Laide
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Laide
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12595
Site Number NH53NW 18
NGR NH 540 351
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH53NW 18 540 351.
Centred at NH 540 351 on an E-facing slope are two stone-walled huts (A & B) with a field system.
'A', set into the slope, is mutilated; it measures about 13.0m E-W by about 11.0m between the centres of a wall spread to about 2.5m in the N and to an indeterminate width elsewhere. The entrance is not evident. 'B' set into the slope, is ill-defined. It measures about 12.5m NW-SE by about 10.5m between the centres of a wall of indeterminate width. The simple entrance is in the SE.
The "huts" seen on A P's are fortuitous natural peat formations.(Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/ 296: 3080-1)
The field system is marked by stone clearance heaps and occasional lynchets, with fields varying between 30.0m and 15.0m by 10.0m.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 5 May 1970
Hut circle at NH 5408 3515 has been destroyed by forestry planting.
Information from OS field surveyor 28 April 1988.