Muck, Gleann Mhairtein
Building (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval)
Site Name Muck, Gleann Mhairtein
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary (Period Unassigned), Hut(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 291856
Site Number NM47NW 83
NGR NM 40073 79062
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/291856
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM47NW 83 40073 79062
A hut-circle, two later huts and a building are situated on a grassy rise to the NW of an area of lazy-bed cultivation towards the SE end of Gleann Mhairtein. The hut-circle (Muck02 252) measures 6.3m in diameter within a wall 1.6m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height. While the core of the wall has been extensively robbed, numerous stones of the inner and outer faces are visible. A field-bank extends across the hut-circle from N to S, and within the interior, set against the W face of this bank, there is a subrectangular hut measuring 3.8m by 2.2m within a stony bank. The second hut is built against the outer face of the hut-circle wall on the W. It measures 2.3m by 1.9m within a turf bank spread 0.9m in thickness and 0.3m in height; the entrance is in the N end. The subrectangular building (Muck02 253) lies to the NW of the hut-circle and measures 7.9m by 4.7m over spread turf walls, from which a few stones protrude at the NW corner.
(Muck02, 252-3, 441-2)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, SDB) 17 May 2002
