Ord Place
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Ord Place
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) The Ord
Canmore ID 5026
Site Number NC50NE 54
NGR NC 5718 0613
NGR Description A: NC 5718 0613, B: NC 5726 0607
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5026
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50NE 54 centred 572 061
(A: NC 5721 0612, B: NC 5727 0607) Two hut circles noted.
Visited by OS (A A) 8 June 1971.
Centred at NC 572 061 on terraces in the gentle north slopes of Ord Hill are two, possibly three stone-walled huts within a small field system, which is separated from the main Ord Hill settlement (NC50NE 13) by marshy ground. Huts A and B are of simple form, and identical in shape and size, being 10.0m internal diameter within a tumbled wall spread to 2.5m broad. Peat growth obscures structural details of the huts, though B is marginally better-preserved. The entrance gaps are in the SE arc, that to A being 4.0m wide. Some 20.0m SSW of hut B is an earth and stone bank 2.5m wide forming an arc about 8.5m across internally (C); it is probably the remains of a hut.
The area around the huts has been cultivated, evidenced by the smooth appearance of the ground, five or six scattered clearance heaps, and a well-preserved stony lynchet north of hut B, but peat build-up obscures any pattern of field plots which may have existed.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 27 July 1976.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J B) 13 March 1979.
Scheduled with NC50NE 13-14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 38-9, 46, 55-6 and 81-2 as The Ord, chambered cairns, cairns, settlements and field systems.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 February 2002.
