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Cairn Guish
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cairn Guish
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 16321
Site Number NJ23NW 7
NGR NJ 2161 3731
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16321
- Council Moray
- Parish Inveravon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
In 1971, the Ordnance Survey identified a series of small fields on the western slopes of Cairn Guish. The surveyors found that these farming plots were defined by small heaps of stones cleared from the land during ploughing. As a whole, the fields averaged about 30m by 20m in size. Within the field-system the surveyors discovered the remains of an oval hut-circle, which measured about 12.5m by 10.5m, though it was in a poor state of preservation.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
NJ23NW 7 2161 3731.
At NJ 2161 3731 is an ill-defined oval stone-walled hut within a contemporary field system.
The hut measures about 12.5m N to S by about 10.5m transversely between the centres of a wall spread to an indeterminate width. The entrance is not evident.
A heather-covered mound, about 4.0m in diameter and about 2.0m high, situated eccentrically within the hut, could be either a peat hag or a stone clearance heap. The field system is marked by stone clearance heaps and lynchets farming plots averaging about 30.0m by 20.0m.
Hut Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 12 March 1971.