Feith Mhor
Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Feith Mhor
Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5434
Site Number NC60NW 2
NGR NC 6145 0837
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5434
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC60NW 2 6145 0837.
(NC 6145 0837) Hut Circle (NR) (NC 615 083) Tumuli (NR)
OS 6" map, Sutherlandshire, 1st ed., (1873)
A hut circle measuring 19ft by 23ft in internal diameter and having an entrance in the SE. The tumuli are 'mounds of the usual type'.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
A small hut circle, 6.5m NW-SE by 5.5m internal diameter with an entrance 1.0m wide in the SE. The stony mounds to the S and E are field clearance heaps.
Visited by OS (W D J) 3 July 1980.
The hut circle is as described above; the wall is spread to 2.0m and 0.3m high internally. The fiald clearance heaps, 5.0m to 20.0m apart, form a small but well-preserved field system, but no measurable plots are evident.
Visited by OS (J B) 7 October 1980.
