Cnoc Na Caorach Glaise
Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cnoc Na Caorach Glaise
Classification Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 171729
Site Number NC14SE 10.01
NGR NC 1575 4376
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/171729
- Council Highland
- Parish Eddrachillis
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC14SE 10.01 1575 4376
Centred on NC 159 440 along a SE-facing hillside, is a settlement of four hut circles (A-D), and a homestead (E) within an extensive associated field system.
'A' measures 8.5m by 7.5m internally and has an entrance in the E on the line of the long axis; the wall is reduced to a peat-covered rubble spread, 2.0m broad by 0.3m high.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 15 May 1980.
A hut-circle (OS 'A') and five small cairns, on the lower SE-facing slopes of Cno na Caorach Glaise, were recorded during a pre-afforestation survey of Scourie and Badcall common grazings. The hut-circle is oval on plan and measures 9m from E to W by 7.5m. It is levelled into the slope on the N and has a 1.2m high embankment on the downhill side. The turf-clad stony banks are up to 2.5m wide and 0.3m high and there is an entrance on the E. On the slope below the hut-circle, there are five small cairns measuring up to 0.5m in diameter and 0.5m in height.
M Dalland and S Halliday (Headland Archaeology 16 November 1999; NMRS MS 1039/52, no.4
Awaiting DES 2000 entry (2000/p.51).
