Loch Nam Gamhna
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Nam Gamhna
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5757
Site Number NC65NW 2
NGR NC 63829 57960
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5757
- Council Highland
- Parish Tongue
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC65NW 2 6382 5795.
(NC 6382 5795) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962)
A hut circle discovered by the OS field investigator (J L D). Heather-covered and built on a spur, it is apparent as a dished platform 10.5m in diameter within a wall spread to 2.5m wide and 0.2 to 0.3m high.The entrance is in the SE. Patches of heather among the generally grassy, peat-covered slope to the N of the hut suggest the existence of submerged clearance heaps.
Revised at 1:10,000
Visited by OS (J L D) 22 April 1960 and (J B) 4 September 1978.
Measured Survey (26 April 2022)
A burnt mound and three hut circles, generally as described by the OS in 1978, were mapped with differential GPS during the survey of the Dallcharn stone rows (NC65NW 26).
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (G F Geddes) 26 April 2022.
