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Altandhu
Archaeological Landscape (Prehistoric) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Altandhu
Classification Archaeological Landscape (Prehistoric) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 4487
Site Number NC01SW 1
NGR NC 0221 1152
NGR Description centred on 0221 1152
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4487
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochbroom
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (31 May 1962)
[(A: NC 0218 1151) Hut Circle (NR) (B: NC 0220 1160) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1971) ]
Two circular stone-walled huts separated by broken ground.
'A' measures 7.5m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to 2.5m with an entrance in the NW. There are a few probably contemporary stone clearance heaps in the SE.
'B' is in a poor state of preservation under heavy bracken. It measures about 9.0m in diameter between wall centres. Several contiguous stones of the inner wall face survive in the N. Entrance not evident. It occurs in an area of late cultivation.
Visited by OS (G H P) 31 May 1962 and (A A) 31 May 1962.
Field Visit (10 August 1994)
NC01SW 1.00 centred on 0221 1152
NC01SW 1.01 NC 0217 1151 hut-circle; enclosure (ACHIL94 297)
NC01SW 1.02 NC 0221 1152 burnt mound (ACHIL94 298)
NC01SW 1.03 NC 0223 1147 building (possible) (ACHIL94 299)
NC01SW 1.04 NC 0220 1175 field-system
A hut-circle, an enclosure, a burnt mound, a possible building, a patch of rig, some small cairns, two field-banks and a field-system are situated in bracken-covered ground on the E of the public road to Achiltibuie. The site is multi-period displaying both a phase of prehistoric settlement and agriculture and a post-medieval phase, described under NC01SW 8, when it may have been used as shieling-ground and latterly as the site of a small farm, the steading of which lies across the road to the W (NC01SW 8).
(ACHIL94 297-9)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 10 August 1994
