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Loch Raa
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Raa
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 4492
Site Number NC01SW 6
NGR NC 0207 1213
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4492
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochbroom
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (17 July 1974)
NC01SW 6 0207 1213.
At NC 0207 1213 is a hut circle with its W arc completely destroyed by water action. Slightly over half survives, indicating a diameter of 9.5m between the centres of a wall spread to 2.5m. A gap in the SE is uncertainly an entrance or a mutilation.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (A A) 17 July 1974.
Field Visit (10 August 1994)
On the E shore of Loch Raa there is a hut-circle; it measures 7.5m in diameter within a stony bank spread to 2.2m in thickness and standing 0.5m in height with an entrance visible on the S. The hut-circle is overgrown with gorse, and the W side of which has been eroded by the Loch.
(ACHIL94 554)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 10 August 1994