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Balbeg
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Balbeg
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 259506
Site Number NH43SE 63
NGR NH 45229 31971
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/259506
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (24 September 1997)
NH43SE 63 4522 3197
This hut-circle stands amidst an extensive group of small cairns on the crest of a low ridge in open moorland. Oval on plan, it measures 9.7m from NNW to SSE by 7.1m transversely within a wall reduced to a stony bank 0.5m high and 2.1m thick. The entrance is on the SSE. The cairns, of which at least 72 can be identified, are concentrated in a 50m wide band, stretching for about 275m from NE to SW along the crest of the ridge. One cairn overlies the NE arc of the hut-circle.
(URQ97 257)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 24 September 1997
