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Auchenrach
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Auchenrach
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Dalvina Lodge
Canmore ID 5713
Site Number NC64SE 40
NGR NC 6979 4292
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5713
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC64SE 40 6979 4292.
(NC 6979 4292) Unannotated pecked circle.
OS 6" map, (1961)
This feature which is a hut circle lies within the small depopulated settlement of Auchenrach. It is situated on a small rise and survives as a turf covered platform ringed by the vestiges of a wall. It measures 12.0m in diameter within the wall, which only survives to any extent in the north where inner and outer facing stones are visible indicating a wall width of 2.0m-2.2m and a height of 0.6m. Elsewhere the wall is robbed presumably for the adjacent early-modern structures. No entrance to the hut was seen. There are no signs of contemporary cultivation; any trace is likely to have been obliterated by the more recent agriculture.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 7 August 1978.
Scheduled with NC64SE 58, NC64SE 59, NC64SE 63 NC74SW 4.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 11 February 1993.
