Garbh-leathad
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Garbh-leathad
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 13996
Site Number NH69SW 1
NGR NH 6153 9407
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13996
- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH69SW 1 6153 9407.
(Centred NH 6153 9414 and NH 6164 9407) Cairns (NR)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)
To the E of Garbh-leathad is a group of mounds between 18ft and 29ft in diameter presenting the presumed hut features.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
At NH 6153 9407, on a shelf in a SW-facing slope, is an ill-defined, circular stone-walled hut with an associated field system. The hut measures about 9.0m in diameter between wall centres, with the wall spread to about 2.5m on all sides except the NE, where it is barely visible. No entrance can be seen. The field system is marked by stone clearance heaps (the 'mounds' noted by the RCAHMS) and lynchets, forming cultivation plots, 20.0m by 15.0m average size.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 10 June 1975.
No change.
Visited by OS (J B) 5 September 1980.
Field Visit (2 October 1909)
71. Garbh Leathad, Bonarbridge.
To the E. of Garbh Leathad is a small group of mounds of from 18' to 20' in diameter, presenting the presumed hut features.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet cviii.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 2nd October 1909.
