Torrachilty Wood
Enclosure (Later Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Later Prehistoric)
Site Name Torrachilty Wood
Classification Enclosure (Later Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Later Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Mhg63817
Canmore ID 382419
Site Number NH45NW 77
NGR NH 44309 56452
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/382419
- Council Highland
- Parish Contin
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (17 February 2025)
NH45NW 77 44310 56452
This bracken-infested hut circle (Highland HER MHG63817) is situated 320m W of Juniper Hill at the NW side of a clearing in sparse natural woodland. Set immediately NW of a low rise, it measures some 17m in diameter within a grass-grown stone wall that has spread up to 2.5m in thickness at the SSE. On the W, where the outer face is formed by large boulders, the wall stands up to 0.8m in height. The entrance, obscured by thick juniper growth, is on the E where the interior of the hut circle has been built up in an apron about 1m in height.
About 18m to the E of the hut-circle there is an oval enclosure, perhaps also later prehistoric in date. This measures about 80m from SW to NE by 85m transversely over a grass-grown stony bank spread to little more than a terrace (4m thick and 0.6m high) on the uphill W side, and may have been a field. A trackway of unknown date passes close to the W side of the hut circle .
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (G F Geddes), 17 February 2025
