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Luing, Dubh Leathad
Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Luing, Dubh Leathad
Classification Hut(S) (Post Medieval), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Park
Canmore ID 372638
Site Number NM71SW 54
NGR NM 74183 11679
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/372638
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (April 2022)
NM71SW 54 74183 11679
This prehistoric hut circle is situated at the NW edge of the high ground known as the Dubh Leathad. The site is a relatively level one, but it is dissected by a series of bedrock slate exposures than run from NNE to SSW and the hut circle has been set into the SE side of one of these. Oval on plan it measures 8.5m from NNW to SSE by 9.5m transversely within a stony wall some 2.5m in thickness between occasional facing stones and 0.4m in height. The entrance, mutilated on its NE side, faces towards the SE and is 2.5m wide.
The construction of two small stone-built huts over the N arc of the hut circle has interrupted the wall with the disturbed material spilling into the interior. There are also a series of clearance cairns, including one that lies on the E wall of the hut circle and three immediately outside it to the SW, while the natural slate exposures in the wider area have been supplemented by clearance. This no doubt relates to the cultivated ground to the immediate N and S of the hut circle that is shown in some detail on the 1st edition of the 6-inch OS map (Argyllshire, sheet cxxix, 1880), although the small huts are presumably earlier.
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (G Geddes, D Bratt, A McCaig) April 2022
ACFA No. 147
Measured Survey (13 April 2022)
HES surveyed the hut circle at Dubh Leathad between 13 April 2022 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:250. The resultant plan was redrawn in vector graphics software at a scale of 1:500.
