Caol Loch
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Caol Loch
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 4576
Site Number NC14NE 1
NGR NC 1695 4773
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4576
- Council Highland
- Parish Eddrachillis
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC14NE 1 1695 4773.
(NC 1695 4772) An earthen circle, 9m in diameter and 0.5m high.
Information from OS, May 1973.
At NC 1695 4773, on a rise at the N side of a loch, is a hut circle. It measures some 8.0m by 7.0m internally with an entrance in the SSE on the line of the long axis. The hut wall is reduced to a peat-covered rubble spread, 2.0m broad and up to 0.4m high.
The vicinity of the hut circle is relatively stone-free, but there are no stone clearance heaps or lynchets visible.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 15 May 1980.
