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Findhorn
Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Findhorn
Classification Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Creag An Thim Bhig; Soilsean; Sheanevall
Canmore ID 14938
Site Number NH82NW 14
NGR NH 8153 2782
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14938
- Council Highland
- Parish Moy And Dalarossie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH82NW 14 8153 2782
At NH 8153 2782 on the E flank of a small hill and immediately to the N of a depopulated hamlet, is a denuded circular stone-walled hut measuring c. 11.0m in diameter between the centres of a mutilated wall spread to c. 3.0m where best preserved in the N. The entrance is not evident.
On the hill is evidence of a contemporary field system, in the form of stone clearance heaps and occasional lynchets, which is overlaid by cultivation contemporary with the hamlet including some lazybeds. Separated from this hill by a stream, are several more denuded stone clearance heaps in a grass field centred at NH 812 279 some 200 metres to the W.
Hut surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 22 March 1972.
Air photographs, taken by Jill Harden in 1989, are in Inverness Museum (8907.19-20 INVMG).
Information from J Harden 1989.
Scheduled (with NH82NW 37) as 'Soilsean, deserted township and hut circle 745m ESE of... the remains of a late prehistoric hut circle and Sheanevall, a deserted rural township of post-medieval date...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 7 November 2007.
