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South Clunes
Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name South Clunes
Classification Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12713
Site Number NH54SE 17
NGR NH 5520 4015
NGR Description Centred NH 5520 4015
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12713
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltarlity And Convinth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH54SE 17 centred 552 401.
('B' NH 5507 4014) ('C' NH 5506 4018) Hut Circles (NR)
('D' NH 5529 4015) ('E' NH 5534 4011) Hut circles (NR)
OS 25" map, (1969)
Centred at NH 552 401 is a settlement of five huts ('A' to 'E') with field system. Apart from 'E', each hut is circular formed by a stone wall spread to c. 2.5m all round. All the huts are mutilated and the entrances are not evident. The diameters are given between wall centres.
Huts 'A' and 'B' are contiguous lying NW to SE and are set into a NW facing slope. Hut 'A' measures c. 10.0m in diameter. A gap in the N side is probably due to mutilation. 'B' at a higher level on the SE of 'A', is the same size as 'A'.
'C', set into a NW-facing slope, is denuded and measures c. 9.0m in diameter. Several outer facing stones can be seen in the N arc. 'D' measures c. 10.5m in diameter. The N and E arcs are mutilated. 'E', destroyed in the NE by a wall measures c. 12.0m NW to SE with the wall spread to c. 2.5m.
The field system, surrounded and split up by modern cultivation, is defined mainly by stone clearance heaps and an occasional lynchet, with plots averaging 30m by 15m.
Visited by OS Field Surveyor 13 December 1967; Visited by OS (R L) 14 April 1970
Hut 'A' surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 11 January 1972.
Field Visit (May 1979)
South Clunes 1 NH 552 401 NH54SE 17
In 1970 the OS recorded five hut-circles situated within a cairnfield extending over an area of 7.5ha 1.1 km SW of Letter farmhouse. The hut-circles were obscured by vegetation at the date of visit.
RCAHMS 1979, visited May 1979
