Cnoc An Ruidhean Chruaidh

NC70NE 12 7661 0719.

(NC 765 071) An low ground about 150 yards S of the 'double circle' (NC70NE 11 'B'), is a mounded construction, proved by excavation to be a kiln. It is horse-shoe shaped, open to the SSE enclosing a hollow about 16ft in diameter. At the open end of the hollow lies a large flat slab 4ft 3ins long, and on the W of it are two upright stones on which it rested, forming the mouth of the flue. On excavation, the central area was found to be formed by deposits of rubble intermingled with charcoal. Though not far from the hut circles, modern buildings lie within a mile and there is no trace of the moorland ever having been cultivated. RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

At NC 7661 0719, on the edge of damp ground and adjacent to a settlement of hut circles and a field system, is a 'U'-shaped burnt mound, overgrown with heather. It is unusually large, measuring 14.0m NW-SE by 16.0m transversely and survives to a height of 1.4m. A depression extends from the centre to the SE arc and contains at its base three large earthfast stones. Small burnt stones are exposed in molehills in the summit of the mound.

Surveyed at 1:10,000

Visited by OS (N K B) 18 May 1981.