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Islay, Cnoc Gleann Buidhe
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Islay, Cnoc Gleann Buidhe
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 37989
Site Number NR44NW 12
NGR NR 40852 47409
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37989
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kildalton And Oa
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR44NW 12 4084 4739.
See also NR44NW 11
NR 407 475. A circular enclosure lies just below the head of a valley N of Carn Mor. It is about 20ft in diameter within a 6ft to 9ft turf wall spread. Within it is a recent circle 5ft diameter, 3ft high.
I D Shanks 1970.
NR 4084 4739. This feature is a ruined croft, originally sub-rectangular but tumbled to sub-circular appearance. Mr Shanks (85 Frederick Crescent, Port Ellen) confirms this as the feature described.
Visited by OS (JRL) 22 June 1978.
Manuscript annotation on RCAHMS working map indicates a 'Circle, 25', within 6' wall. ?Prehistoric'.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Field Visit (May 1980)
NR 410 475. Situated on a slight heathery knoll on the N side of a shallow valley, and 550m NE of the chambered cairn NR34NE 33, there is a hut-circle measuring 9m in diameter within a substantial rubble-cored stone wall up to 2.5m thick. Extensive stretches survive of the outer face (standing 1.1m high in three courses) and also shorter lengths of the lowest course of the inner face; 0.25m inside the line of the inner face several large earthfast stones, which resemble facing-stones, may have belonged to a plinth-like structure or indicate a rebuilding of the wall. The entrance probably lay on the SE, where the rubble is thinner. A series of small enclosures, some situated within the interior and others attached to the outside of the wall, may be contemporary with traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation in the vicinity.
Visited by RCAHMS May 1980.
RCAHMS 1984.
Measured Survey (1980)
RCAHMS surveyed the hut circle at Gleann Buidhe at a scale of 1:200. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 140C).
