Bogbain Wood
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Bogbain Wood
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14289
Site Number NH74SW 13
NGR NH 7010 4110
NGR Description Centred on NH 7010 4110
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14289
- Council Highland
- Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74SW 13 centred 701 411
See also NH74SW 27.
Centred at NH 701 411 in cleared woodland is a settlement of six circular stone-walled huts (A - F) and contemporary cultivation.
The huts have been mutliated by afforestation, and their walls are now spread to between 2.0m and 3.0m all round, with no trace of facing or portal stones. The entrance can only be seen in hut 'A'. All hut diameters are given between wall centres.
Hut 'A', on rise, measures 10.5m in diameter. A gap, c. 3.0m wide, in the SE arc marks the mutilated entrance.
'B' is 12.5m in diameter.
'C' is c. 9.5m in diameter.
'D' is c. 10.0m diameter. Its E arc is destroyed.
'E' is c. 9.5m in diameter.
'F' is c. 9.0m in diameter.
The signs of cultivation comprise occasional stone clearance heaps and lynchets, but afforestation has destroyed all distinct traces of cultivation plots.
Divorced surveys at 1:10,000 of huts 'E' and 'F'.
Visited by OS (N K B) 3 April 1970.
Huts 'A' - 'D' surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 13 December 1971.
Field Visit (June 1978)
Drummossie Muir 1 NH 701 411 NH74SW 13
This group of at least six hut-circles and scattered cairns was largely obscured by heather at the date of visit.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1978
