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Druim Na Ceardaich
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Druim Na Ceardaich
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12977
Site Number NH57SE 9
NGR NH 5718 7480
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12977
- Council Highland
- Parish Alness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH57SE 9 5718 7480.
(NH 5718 7480) Enclosure (NR)
OS 25"map, (1967)
West of the Strone peat road is Druim na Ceardaich, Smith Ridge, with a circular ruin, said to have been a smithy.
W J Watson 1904.
A circular stone-walled hut in a commanding position at the E end of a low ridge. It is scarped into a slope with its E arc built up to form a platform which is surrounded by a wall spread to about 4.0m all round, standing to a maximum height of 1.4m in the SW. It measures 19.5m in diameter between wall centres. No facing stones are evident. The simple entrance in the SE is about 2.5m wide. A break in the N is due to mutilation, and a modern hill dyke crosses the hut from N to S.
The hut occurs in an afforested are and there is no trace of contemporary cultivation.
Visited by OS (A A) 4 November 1970.
This hut is as described by the previous field investigator.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 11 November 1976.
