Leachonich
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Leachonich
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Pollagharrie, Cnoc Leddie, Bravard
Canmore ID 13811
Site Number NH68NE 12
NGR NH 6737 8515
NGR Description NH 6737 8515 and NH 67333 85083
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13811
- Council Highland
- Parish Edderton
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH68NE 12 6737 8515 and 6733 8508.
(A) (NH 6737 8515) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
Two stone-walled huts (A and B).
Hut 'A' set into the E shoulder of Cnoc Leddie, is oval measuring c.11.0m WNW to ESE by c.9.5m between the centres of a wall spread to c.2.5m all round. A few outer wall facing stones can be seen in the SE arc. The entrance is not evident.
'B' at NH 6733 8508 set into a SE-facing slope, is a circular platform, c.10.0m diameter, with a back scarp and frontal build-up with traces of walling round the rim. In the SE are two or three outer facing stones. The entrance is not apparent.
There are a few stone clearance heaps in the vicinity particularly to the N of hut 'A' which are probably from contemporary cultivation plots. 'B' surveyed at 1/10 000
Name Book 1874; D MacDonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931; Visited by OS (R L) 26 October 1970.
Field Visit (6 September 1943)
Hut circle, Pollagharrie.
About 500 yds NW of the farm are remains of a very small hut circle, measuring only some 18' over all. It lies on the E tip of a spur of Struie above the 550' contour but below the summit of the knoll.
Visited by RCAHMS (VGC) 6 September 1943.
Field Visit (September 1978)
Lechanich NH 673 851 NH68NE 12
These two hut-circles stand among a scatter of small cairns. The more northerly example measures 11 m from ESE to WNW by 9.5m transversely between wall-centres; the other measures 10m in diameter and is terraced into the slope.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(Macdonald and Polson 1931, 64)
Watching Brief (17 January 2017 - 20 January 2017)
NM 28838 25566, NM 28800 25424, NM 28520 24682 – NM 28520 24722, NM 28484 24332, NM 28320 23919 – NM 28349 23883, NM 27959 23603 – NM 27993 23622, NM 28083 23447 Watching briefs were undertaken, 17–20 January 2017, during excavations for replacement poles on overhead power lines and for earth-cable trenches at various locations on Iona. Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered in any of the trenches.
Archive and report: NRHE
Funder: SSEN
John Lewis – Scotia Archaeology
(Source: DES, Volume 18)
