Stac An Eich
Enclosure (Period Unknown), Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Stac An Eich
Classification Enclosure (Period Unknown), Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 13088
Site Number NH62NW 16
NGR NH 6354 2714
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13088
- Council Highland
- Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (6 January 1972)
NH62NW 16 6354 2714.
At NH 6354 2714 set into the foot of a SE-facing slope is a circular stone-walled hut measuring c. 11.5m in diameter between the centres of an ill-defined wall. The ill-defined entrance is in the E.
In the vicinity and obscured by deep heather are a few stone clearance heaps and traces of walls probably from contemporary cultivation plots.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (A A) 6 January 1972.
Field Visit (3 March 1993)
Levelled into the foot of a SE-facing slope below Stac an Eich, there is a hut-circle measuring 9.5m in diameter within a faced stony bank spread to 1.5m in thickness. There are clearance heaps in the vicinity, and to the SW and NE stony banks run up the hill. There is an oval enclosure, measuring about 11m by 9m, on sloping ground some 150m to the WSW (at NH 6340 2207).
(USN93 253)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 3 March 1993.
