West Town
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name West Town
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 13270
Site Number NH63SW 37
NGR NH 6201 3209
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13270
- Council Highland
- Parish Dores
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (12 February 1970)
NH63SW 37 6201 3209.
(NH 6201 3209) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 25"map, (1974)
This mutilated circular hut (noted by Shaw) (Information from Major C J Shaw [Tordarroch] to OS 12 May 1962), on the edge of modern cultivation, measures c. 13.5m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to an indefinite width. Outer facing stones, visible on the S and E arcs, are insufficient to allow reliable overall measurements. The entrance in the E arc is ill-defined. The hut, overlaid by a modern wall in the SW arc and mutilated by robbing in the NW, is generally obscured by modern clearance from the adjacent cultivation. There is no trace of a contemporary field system, and two "burials" mentioned by Shaw are modern clearance heaps.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (visited by OS (RDL) 28 August 1963)
Visited by OS (NKB) 12 February 1970.
Field Visit (7 October 1992)
This hut-circle is situated in scrub birch woodland on a terrace near the edge of Loch Duntelchaig, it measures 8.7m from N to S by 7.7m transversely between rubble walls measuring 1.8m in thickness and standing up to 0.5m in height with an entrance on the S.
(USN93 121)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 7 October 1992.
