Auchinduich
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Auchinduich
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Achinduich
Canmore ID 12990
Site Number NH59NE 1
NGR NH 5803 9910
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12990
- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH59NE 1 5803 9910.
(NH 58039904) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 6"map, (1970)
A circular enclosure measuring 51' N-S by 48' transversely, within a stone wall 10' thick widening to 14' at the entrance, 3 ft wide, in the W. The interior appears to be sub-divided into numerous chambers, but the details are obscured by vegetation.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
This is a circular stone-walled hut on a shelf on a W slope at NH 5800 9910. It measures 15.5m in diameter internally, within a wall, defined by inner and outer facing stones, 2.0m thick at the rear increasing to about 3.0m at the entrance in the W on the downhill side. This increase in thickness is apparently due to the build up on the slope, and not to a "clubbed" entrance. A line of three stones marks the S side of the entrance, but the N side is not evident. The interior is now featureless. There is no trace of cultivation plots in the vicinity. Surveyed at 1:2500 (Visited by OS [EGC] 9 June 1963).
Visited by OS (A A) 1 October 1963.
Field Visit (2 July 1909)
55. Fortified Enclosure, Auchinduich. Some ¾ m. S. of Auchinduich Lodge, at the edge of a birch wood between the road and the railway, and some 150 yards W. of the former, is a circular enclosure. It is surrounded by the base of a stony bank or wall, well defined on the outer and inner circumference with large contiguous boulders. The interior appears to have been subdivided into numerous chambers, but as it is entirely overgrown with turf and bracken, the details are unobtainable. The interior diameter from N. to S. is 51' and from E. to W. 48'. The thickness of the wall is 10', except at the entrance, where on either side it is 14'. The entrance passage is 3' wide, and leads inwards from the W.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet ciii. (unnoted).
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 2nd July 1909.
