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Muckovie

Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Muckovie

Classification Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 14288

Site Number NH74SW 12

NGR NH 7056 4410

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NH74SW 12 7056 4410.

There are traces of hut circles a short distance above Castlehill (NH 696 443)

ISSFC 1893.

A pair of hut circles exist among the beeches a few yards off the road on the slope above Cardlehall (NH 70 44). One is in good preservation; the other is partially broken up.

ISSFC 1885

These two hut circles are marked at approximately NH 7056 4410 on Fraser's (Mackay 1911) map. A housing estate now occupies the site.

Visited by OS (A A) 6 May 1970; W Mackay 1911.

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Field Visit (April 1979)

Cradlehall NH c.705 441 NH74SW 12

Nothing can now be seen, in an area developed for housing, of two hut-circles noted in 1876.

RCAHMS 1979, visited April 1979

(Transactions of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club, i, 1875-80, 30)

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