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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Lairg
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

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.

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