Savalmore
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Savalmore
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5045
Site Number NC50NE 70
NGR NC 5857 0863
NGR Description NC 5857 0863 and NC 5861 0850
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5045
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50NE 70 5857 0863 and 5861 0850.
At NC 5857 0863 and NC 5861 0850, within a field recently reseeded, are two poorly-preserved stone-walled hut circles (A and B respectively). 'A' is 11.0m NW-SE by 9.5m internally within a wall spread to 2.5m broad, though all details are obscured by heavy silting. The entrance was probably in the SE on the longer axis.
A track bisects hut B and only the north half survives. The hut is 12.5m across internally within a wall spread to 3.0m. The wall content of earth and stone rubble is exposed where the track cuts. A few scattered clearance heaps occur in the area, but no plots as such are discernible.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 13 August 1976.
