Blar Achaidh

NO06NE 44 069 660

Five hut-circles and timber house stances, some of them overlain by shieling-huts are strung out over a distance of 180m on a narrow ridge on the W side of Allt Dubhagan.

1. NO 0694 6614 The northernmost is overlain by a large shieling-hut, but the whole of the NE half, and the entrance on the ESE, is visible. It measures about 9m in internal diameter and the bank around the NE half is 1.8m in thickness by 0.3m in height.

2. NO 0694 0608 About 40m S there is a semi-circular scoop the W half of a timber-walled house (See NO06NE 16). The N and E sides are overlain by shieling-huts, and a hollow on the SSE probably marks the position of the entrance.

3. NO 0696 6607 A further 10m to the SE there is a probable hut-circle measuring about 9.5m in diameter within a bank about 2m in thickness by 0.2m in height. The interior is scooped into the ridge and no entrance is visible. The W side is overlain by a shieling- hut.

4. NO 0697 6603 About 30m further S there is another probable hut-circle with its interior scooped up to 0.6m into the crest of the ridge. It measures about 7.7m in internal diameter and there are traces of a bank around the SE arc.

5. NO 0697 6597 Beneath the southernmost of the shieling-huts is a fifth hut-circle. It measures about 8m in internal diameter and the interior is scooped up to 0.4m into the ridge on the SW. Its whole NE side is obscured by the hut but the entrance is visible on the ESE.

Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 7 July 1988.

RCAHMS 1990