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Stac An Eich

Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)

Site Name Stac An Eich

Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 13089

Site Number NH62NW 17

NGR NH 6362 2700

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Stac An Eich, NH62NW 17, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Stac An Eich, NH62NW 17, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoStac An Eich, NH62NW 17, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Activities

Field Visit (6 January 1972)

NH62NW 17 6362 2700.

At NH 6362 2700, on the brink of a SW-facing slope and separated from NH62NW 16 by boggy ground is an oval stone-walled hut measuring c. 12.0m from the NNW through the ill-defined entrance in the ESE by c. 10.5m transversely between the centres of a wall spread to c. 3.0m all round. Immediately SW of the entrance are four outer facing stones.

In the vicinity are a few stone clearance heaps, probably from contemporary cultivation plots.

Surveyed at 1/10,000 and 25" scale.

Visited by OS (R L) 6 January 1972.

Field Visit (3 March 1992)

This hut-circle stands in heather on the leading edge of a terrace overlooking boggy ground on the W bank of the River Nairn. It measures 8.5m in diameter within a stony bank spread to 1.6m in thickness and standing 0.3m high. The hut is set into sloping ground on the NE.

Outer facing-stones are visible to the SW of the entrance, which is on the SE, and the wall thickens here to 3.5m.

(USN93 86)

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 3 March 1993.

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