Achuvoldrach Burn
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Achuvoldrach Burn
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5320
Site Number NC55NE 15
NGR NC 5557 5888
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Tongue
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC55NE 15 5557 5888.
'A': NC 5558 5887 and 'B' NC 5561 5890. Two hut circles 'A' is 12.5m in diameter, with walls more than 3m thick, faced on the inside and with an entrance 0.7m wide in the east. 'B' is ruinous, 9m in diameter.
Information contained in letter and map from T C Welsh to OS, 23 July 1973
There is just one hut circle situated on a natural shelf at NC 5557 5888, and accompanied by field clearance. It measures 6.5m internal diameter and has an entrance in the ESE quarter; the wall, substantially of bare stone, stands 0.4m high and is spread 2.0 to 2.5m broad. Associated land use is denoted in linear field clearance along the bottom of the gentle down-slope to the south-east; but no plots are discernible. Perambulation of the area failed to establish the whereabouts of Welsh's second hut circle.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JM) 5 September 1978
