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Burn Of Holmhead
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Burn Of Holmhead
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 35146
Site Number NO57NE 4
NGR NO 556 776
NGR Description Centred NO 556 776
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35146
- Council Angus
- Parish Edzell
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO57NE 4 centred 556 776.
Centred at NO 556 776 is a settlement of five circular stone walled huts (A-E) and a contemporary field system.
Four huts, A-D, occur in a group on an uncultivated shelf, and are ill-defined by incomplete boulder walls with no facing stones evident. A and B show evidence of being levelled into the slope, and both measure about 11.5m between wall centres. C and D both measure about 9.0m in diameter. No entrances are evident. In the vicinity of the huts are four later sub-rectangular foundations varying between 6.0m x 3.0m and 9.0m x 4.0m, one of which is built inside hut C.
Hut E is ill-defined by a rubble wall spread to about 1.5m and measureing about 8.5m in diameter between its centres. The entrance is not evident. About 40.0m to the W is a vague circular area bounded by traces of possible walling, which may represent another hut. The field system is marked by stone clearance heaps and an ocassional lynchet and ruinous wall, and is greatly obsured by peat.
No measurable cultivation plots were seen.
Huts A-D surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (A A) 10 November 1971.
