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Clunas
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Clunas
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 15003
Site Number NH84NE 16
NGR NH 88110 45971
NGR Description NH 88110 45971 and NH 88086 45956
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15003
- Council Highland
- Parish Cawdor
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH84NE 16 centred 880 460.
(Area centred NH 881 459) Field clearance. Two probable hut circles lie at NH 8810 4596 and NH 8822 4590.
Visible on RAF air photographs 106G/Scot/UK/169: 3357-9, flown 26 August 1946.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Centred at NH 880 460 on a flat-topped ridge is an area of well-preserved stone clearance heaps. No measurable cultivation plots are evident.
Amongst the heaps at NH 8812 4592 is an oval stone-walled enclosure measuring c.12.0m NW-SE by c.11.0m transversely between the centres of a wall spread to c.2.0m all round, which may be a hut circle although no entrance is evident. There is a dip in the wall in the SW but whether this is the entrance or a mutilation is uncertain. The entrance to an oval hut is invariably on the long axis.
About 30.0m to the SW of the enclosure is an oval platform set into a S-facing slope, which is probably the stance for a timber hut as there is no trace of a stone wall around it. It measures c.7.0m E-W by c.5.5m transversely and is fronted by a strong build up.
The alleged hut circle at NH 8822 4590 is a vegetation mark and not an antiquity.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 10 February 1971.
Field Visit (April 1978)
Clunas 2 NH 880 460 NH84NE 16
A hut-circle and a number of small cairns are situated about 400m SW of Clunas.
RCAHMS 1978, visited April 1978
