Loch Benachally

At NO 0765 5021 is an unusual double-walled hut 'A' similar to hut 'C' of NO 05 NE 17. It measures 6.0m in internal diameter and has an entrance gap in the S. The outer wall measures 14.0m N-S by 23.5m E-W., between its centres. This expands out on the E of the house to form a courtyard, to which there is no obvious entrance, the only gaps in the wall appearing to be mutilations.

At NO 0760 5046 is a single-walled hut 'B' measuring 9.5m between the centres of a poorly defined wall with two gaps, in the E and SW, either of which could be the entrance. A field wall joins the SE arc.

Between the huts are a number of stones clearance heaps amongst which, at NO 0764 5035 is a fragmented outcrop bearing approximately twelve weathered cup marks averaging 4 cms in diameter and 1cm deep.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (JB) 17 January 1975

NO05SE 9 0764 5035

1. NO 0760 5046 This hut-circle is the northerly of two described by the OS (see below) and measures 8m in diameter within a wall reduced to a stony spread 1.8m in thickness and 0.2m in height. It is best defined on the W and N sides where several outer facing-stones are visible, and the position of the entrance may be indicated by a slight dip in the crest of the wall on the ESE.

2. NO 0765 5021 The OS record an unusually-shaped double-walled hut-circle about 250m S of (1), but at the time of visit the site was under a cover of thick heather and the various features described by the OS could not be convincingly identified. The scarp forming the N side of the hut-circle was visible, as were short lengths of banks on the S and E sides of the outer enclosure.

3. NO 0764 5035 About 120m SSE of (1), situated on the crest of the same ridge, there are several large fragments of bedrock, the easternmost of which bears up to fourteen cup-marks on its sloping S face. The cups measure 30-60mm in diameter by up to c.14mm in depth.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 13 July 1987.

RCAHMS 1990.