Loch Lanlish
Field System (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Lanlish
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 4804
Site Number NC36NE 42
NGR NC 382 686
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4804
- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC36NE 42 382 686.
NC 3826 6867. A small hut circle, 14 ft 6 ins in overall diameter, lies between the 100 ft and 125 ft contours.
R W K Reid 1968.
Centred on NC 382 686 are two small sub-rectangular or sub-oval enclosures. The first, at NC 3826 6868, is the feature described above. It measures 3.0m by 2.5m within an ill-defined rubble wall 1.0m wide, which just protrudes above the peat and heather. The entrance is virtually identical to the former; it has an approximate internal diameter of 2.5m with the entrance in the E.
A field system of approximately 7 hectares lies immediately above the enclosures on gently sloping, N-facing ground and among short cropped turf. It comprises lengths of curvilinear field clearance and small clearance heaps partially covered by vegetation. The density of the clearance is greater in the centre of the system fading towards the W and E margins. No bounded plots are visible.
The two enclosures are not hut circles, being too small and angular; in appearance they are similar to shieling bothies. The form of the field system is prehistoric, whereas the enclosures are likely to originate from later times.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 13 November 1978.
