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Coll, Kilbride
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Coll, Kilbride
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 21581
Site Number NM15SE 14
NGR NM 1929 5495
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Coll
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM15SE 14 1929 5495.
At NM 1929 5495 is a circular stone-walled hut 4.3m in internal diameter within a wall some 2.2m thick. The inner face is visible intermittently, to a height of two courses in the N. Around the periphery are one or two stones of the outer face. The entrance in the E, 0.9m wide, is flanked on its outer side by two boulders and has a stone jamb on its inner N side.
About 35m to the W is an arc of contiguous stones on edge, probably the NW half of a contemporary enclosure some 11m in diameter. There are no traces of contemporary cultivation.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 1 July 1972.
(NM 1929 5495) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
This feature is not noted by the RCAHMS, who therefore cannot consider it to be an antiquity.
RCAHMS 1980.
This site was investigated during a watching brief on a new house build nearby. The site consists of a single course of large, unworked boulders which create a circle 3.3m in diameter. Its recorded grid reference of NM 1929 5495 was thought to be some distance SE of its actual location. In addition a previously unrecorded feature nearby was also recorded. It is a wall or bank, consisting of one or two courses of large field boulders with soil in-between. Its construction closely resembles that of the hut circle. The fact that it is not recorded on the OS 1st edition map of 1881 suggests that it is not post-Improvement in date but more likely prehistoric.
J Lewis 2006
