Burnhead Moor, Hut Circle
Mound (Period Unknown)
Site Name Burnhead Moor, Hut Circle
Classification Mound (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 42449
Site Number NS37SW 4
NGR NS 3000 7258
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42449
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Kilmacolm
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS37SW 4 3000 7258.
NS 3000 7258. A hut circle, 16ft in overall diameter, with a 2ft wide entrance to the E stands on a low knoll, S of a small north tributary to the Gryfe.
F Newall 1964
By analogy with sites at Martin Glen (NS26NW 9) and Rottenburn (NS26NE 14), it is probably of Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age date.
F Newall 1976
The siting given above was confirmed by Mr Newall, but though the knoll was located there, no trace was found of a hut circle. On top of the knoll there is a slight green mound, about 6.0m in diameter which may be the feature described, but it is not a hut circle.
Visited by OS (JTT) 23 November 1964.
Field Visit (November 2012)
As part of a cultural heritage statement CFA Archaeology Ltd undertook field survey to assess the present baseline condition of the known archaeology and heritage features identified through a desk-based assessment as well as to identify any further features of historic environment interest not detected from the deskbased assessment; as well as areas with the potential to contain currently unrecorded buried archaeological remains.
Field survey did not identify a knoll or green mound at the grid reference cited. A bedrock knoll was found approximately 20 m to the west of the recorded location, but no archaeological features were identified on its
summit.
Information from Helena Gray (CFA Archaeology Ltd) July 2014. OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-263967, no.5
