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Langdale
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Langdale
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5690
Site Number NC64SE 2
NGR NC 6820 4491
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5690
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC64SE 2 6820 4491.
(NC 6820 4491) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1961)
A prominent hut circle, set on a S facing slope, was discovered by the previous field investigator (Visited by OS {J L D} 7 May 1960). It is turf and heather-covered and measures about 12.0m in diameter within a wall 0.6m high, and 2.7m wide in the W where opposing inner and outer facing stones are evident. Inner facing stones can be seen intermittently around the whole periphery; outers predominately only in the W. The hut has a fine stone-flanked entrance in the S, 3.3m long and 1.6m wide. A door check stands 1.4m inside the entrance on the W side. This hut resembles Hut V at Kilphedir (See NC91NE 25 type site).
Some 80.0m W of the hut is an obscure feature possibly the remains of a structure or simply stone clearance. It is sub-rectangular or sub-oval. An irregular low, stony 'bank' delimits the feature; no set stones are evident in this 'bank'. A boulder-choked gap in the SE may indicate an entrance. The 'bank' continues for 3.0m past the entrance on the E side. Around the hut is an associated field system of about 2ha, denoted by relatively stone free ground fringed by stone clearance heaps, 10.0m-15.0m apart. Some of the heaps are unusually large, possibly added to when the ground was latterly cultivated as evidenced by rig and furrow.
Visited by OS (J B) 7 August 1978.
