Mound Rock
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Mound Rock
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14756
Site Number NH79NE 16
NGR NH 7738 9948
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Golspie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH79NE 16 7738 9948.
At NH 7738 9948 on a W-facing slope is a mutilated stone-walled hut within an associated field system. The hut of which RCAHMS (1911) state that only the W side remains, is visible as a platform c. 8.0m in diameter, built up on the slope and within a wall of indeterminate thickness, which is destroyed in the N arc. A gap, 3.0m wide in the S may indicate the position of the entrance. A lynchet extends NE and SE from the hut but generally the field system is marked only by scattered stone clearance heaps (noted as a large group of mounds by the RCAHMS) and merges into recent cultivation in the W. There are no measurable cultivation plots.
Visited by OS (N K B) 25 November 1969.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 7 May 1975.
