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Loch Charles
Hut(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Loch Charles
Classification Hut(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 27427
Site Number NO05SE 65
NGR NO 0852 5492
NGR Description Centred NO 0852 5492
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27427
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kirkmichael (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (27 July 1987)
NO05SE 65 centred 0852 5492
Location formerly entered as NO 085 549.
The remains of three huts are situated on the N side of a shallow gully 230m NW of the triangular plantation to the NNE of Loch Charles.
1. NO 0850 5492 The westernmost hut is sub-rectangular, measuring 5.5m from NNW to SSE by 3.5m over a stony bank 1m in thickness by 0.2m in height.
2. NO 0852 5492 The middle hut measures 3.7m from N to S by 3.5m over a tumbled wall up to 0.7m in height.
3. NO 0853 5492 The easternmost hut measures 5m from WNW to ESE by 3.5m over a wall about 0.7m in thickness by 0.4m in height. Its entrance is on the S.
4. Built against an outcrop just below the crest, on the NE side of a rocky ridge to the SE (NO 0857 5484), there is a stone structure with a collapsed slab-built roof. With its entrance to the SE and the outcrop to the SW, the wall on the NE and NW is 0.8m thick by 0.7m high. The interior measures 1.7m by 1m.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH), 27 July 1987.
RCAHMS 1990.
