Loch Nan Geadas
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Nan Geadas
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Achnabat
Canmore ID 12622
Site Number NH53SE 7
NGR NH 59962 31200
NGR Description Centred NH 59962 31200
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12622
- Council Highland
- Parish Dores
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH53SE 7 centred 59962 31200
Location formerly entered as NH 5995 3119.
At NH 5995 3119 there is a circular stone-walled hut with field system. The hut is 12.8m overall diameter with a wall spread to c. 2.0m. Part of the outer face of contiguous upright stones and the rubble core are visible, but no inner face can be seen. The ill-defined entrance is in the E. The field system is comprised mainly of stone clearance heaps with occasional lynchets and field walls forming cultivation plots, one near the hut, measuring 20.0m by 20.0m.
Hut surveyed at 1/10,000 (Visible on OS air photograph AP 67.198.008).
Visited by OS (N K B), 2 March 1970.
Scheduled as 'Achnabat, hut circle 1065m N of...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 March 2007.
Hut Circle [NAT]
(at NH 59962 31200)
OS (GIS) AIB, May 2007.
