Islay, Glasgo Beag
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Islay, Glasgo Beag
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Glasgo Beag 2
Canmore ID 37731
Site Number NR36SE 2
NGR NR 39716 64127
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37731
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killarow And Kilmeny
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR36SE 2 3971 6412.
NR 398 641. Round house 27ft by 21ft within 12ft wide walls; 6ft wide entrance in E.
I D Shanks 1968.
Recent.
Information from RCAHMS to OS.
At NR 3971 6412 among undulating limestone outcrop is a turf-covered hut circle. It measures 8.5m E-W by 8.0m within a wall about 2.0m wide and 0.6m high. Intermittent inner and outer facing stones are evident. A probable portal stone stands on the sough side of the entrance in the east. Adjacent, are a number of plots, which although containing more recent cultivation, may have been originally contemporary with the hut.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (J B) 11 June 1978.
Field Visit (June 1979)
NR 397 641. The second hut-circle at Glasgo Beag (see also NR46SW 4) is situated on an uneven ridge 760m SSW of Knocklearoch with traces of rig-and-furrow in the vicinity. The wall, which encloses a featureless grassy interior some 9m in diameter, has been reduced for much of its length to a stony bank up to 0.6m high; there are two stretches of the outer face and one of the inner face in position, giving a wall thickness of between 2m and 3m. The entrance lies on the E; one remaining stone on the S side marks the line of the passage-wall; the other side has been removed, leaving a gap of 1.9m. Attached to the W arc of the hut-circle, where the bank is lower than elsewhere, there is an open-ended annexe, 5.5m long and 3m wide at its inner end, within a wall which survives as a low stony bank 1.5m thick.
Visited June 1979
RCAHMS 1984
Measured Survey (1979)
RCAHMS surveyed the hut circles at Glasgo Beag at a scale of 1:200. The plans were redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 140A-B).
