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Luing, Ballycastle
Hut(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Luing, Ballycastle
Classification Hut(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 372636
Site Number NM71SE 69
NGR NM 75246 12021
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/372636
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (31 March 2022)
NM71SE 69 75246 12021 and 75254 12028
The grass-grown stone footings of two huts are evident on visualisations derived from Airborne Laser Scanning data about 15m SE of the fort at Ballycastle (NM71SE 1). The SW hut measures about 4.5m from E to W by 4m transversely within a wall 1.3m in thickness. The second hut, which lies about 7m to the NE, measures about 4.5m in diameter within a wall 1.3m in thickness. These huts do not bear comparison with prehistoric hut circles on Luing (e.g. NM71SW 54 or NM71SW 56) or further afield and are more likely to be associated with much later pastoral activity and the enclosures downslope (NM71SE 14).
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (G Geddes and D Bratt), 31 March 2022
ACFA Nos. 107 and 108
