Meikle Dallas
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Meikle Dallas
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Balligh Wood, Balleigh Wood
Canmore ID 13912
Site Number NH68SE 5
NGR NH 69669 84220
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13912
- Council Highland
- Parish Edderton
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH68SE 5 6966 8421.
(NH 6966 8421) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
A hut circle in the W end of Balligh Wood, composed of large boulders.
Name Book 1874.
In cleared woodland is a denuded circular hut measuring 9.2m in diameter within a stone wall, 1.6m thick, of which both the inner and outer wall faces of contiguous stones set on edge are visible intermittently. The 'simple' entrance, c.1.3m wide, in the E, is flanked on the S side by an earthfast stone. The hut has been robbed as there is no trace of the wall core and several facing stones are scattered loosely both inside and outside the hut. There is no trace of contemporary cultivation.
Revised at 1/2500 (OS {W D J}).
Visited by OS (W D J) 14 May 1963 and (R L) 21 October 1970.
Field Visit (September 1978)
Balleigh Wood NH 696 842 NH68SE 5
This hut-circle measures 9.2m in diameter within a stone wall 1.6m thick. There is an entrance 1.3m wide on the E.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
