Bogbain Wood
Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Bogbain Wood
Classification Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14291
Site Number NH74SW 15
NGR NH 7075 4147
NGR Description Centred on NH7075 4147
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14291
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74SW 15 7073 4133
At NH 7073 4133 in open moorland, formerly Bogbain Wood, is a circular stone-walled hut and an associated field system. The hut measures c.10.5m in diameter, between the centres of a wall spread to c.2.5m all round. In the SE arc is a simple entrance c.1.0m wide. The well-defined field system comprises stone clearance heaps and occasional field walls and lynchets forming cultivation plots average size c.30.0m by c.20.0m.
Visited by OS (N K B), 3 April 1970.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (A A) 4 February 1972.
Field Visit (June 1978)
Drummossie Muir 2 NH 707 413 NH74SW 15
A single hut-circle, recorded by the OS in 1970, was obscured by dense heather at the date of visit. It stands within a cairnfield extending over an area of 14ha.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1978
