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Brachryriach
Field System (Period Unknown), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Brachryriach
Classification Field System (Period Unknown), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Garbeg
Canmore ID 12636
Site Number NH53SW 17
NGR NH 50924 31299
NGR Description NH 50924 31299 and NH 51094 31308
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12636
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Centred at NH 509 312 are two oval stone-walled huts (A and B) with field system.
'A', set into an ESE-facing slope, measures c. 10.5m NW-SE by c. 9.0m transversely between the centres of a denuded wall spread to c. 2.0m in the S, and c. 1.0m elsewhere. The entrance in the SE is mutilated. A field wall runs NE from the NE side of the entrance, and a clearance heap lies against the wall in the W.
'B', set into a NE slope, measures c. 11.5m NW-SE by c. 10.0m transversely between the centres of a wall spread to c. 2.5m. The SE arc is destroyed by a recent wall. The entrance is not evident.
The field system is marked by stone clearance heaps, with occasional lynchets and field walls, but details of fields are obscured by birch scrub, and use of the area as a cattle park.
Visited by OS (A A) 4 May 1970
Huts surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 7 December 1971
Field Visit (7 August 1997)
NH53SW 17 50924 31299 and 51094 31308
There are two hut-circles on a ridge of rough ground to the SE of Garbeg farmsteading, and SW of Brachryriach. The more westerly of the two (URQ97 1) is oval and measures 7.8m from NW to SE by 7.1m transversely within a stony bank 1.7m in thickness and 0.2m in height. There is an entrance gap on the E. A small cairn lies to the SE of the hut-circle and a turf mound to the WSW. The second hut-circle (URQ97 2) lies about 160m to the E, overlooking the NE flank of the ridge. It measures 7.6m in diameter within a bank 1.7m in thickness and 0.3m in height. A gap on the N of the bank may indicate the position of the entrance. On the slope to the N of the hut-circle there are traces of what is probably narrow rig.
(URQ97 1-2)
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 7 August 1997
