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Craggiemore

Bank (Earthwork) (Period Unknown), Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Craggiemore

Classification Bank (Earthwork) (Period Unknown), Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Cnoc Na H-airigh-sleibh

Canmore ID 5870

Site Number NC70NW 32

NGR NC 7286 0847

NGR Description NC 7286 0847 and NC 7292 0848

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Activities

Field Visit (8 April 1981)

NC70NW 32 7286 0847 and 7292 0848

At NC 7292 0848 and NC 7286 0847, on an E-facing hill-slope, are two hut circles (A and B respectively). Associated land-use is denoted by a number of stone clearance heaps in the vicinity. The huts are peat and heather covered and the walls collapsed; entrances are in the SE quarter, the line of the main axis.

'A' measures 7.0 by 5.5m within a wall spread from 2.5 to 3.0m and up to 0.3m high.

'B' measures 11.0 by 10.0m inside a wall 0.6m high on average and spread from a main width of 3.5m expanding to 4.5m in the sides of the entrance.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (J M) 8 April 1981.

Field Visit (21 March 1995)

Two hut-circles are situated on a peat-covered E-facing slope to the W of Craggiemore. The westernmost (ROG95 52, NC 7286 0847, OS'B') measures 10.1m from NNW to SSE by 9.3m transversely within a stony bank spread to 2.2m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The terminals of the bank have been expanded to form an entrance-passage 4m in length, opening out on the SSE into the slight remains of what may have been a baffle. The second hut-circle (ROG95 58, NC 7292 0848, OS'A') is much smaller, measuring 6.4m from ESE to WNW by 5.2m transversely within a bank spread to 2m in thickness and 0.4m in height. The bank terminals have been thickened at the entrance, which is on the ESE.

The ground around the hut-circles is markedly smooth and there are at least three small cairns, measuring up to 3m in diameter and 0.3m in height, to the N and ENE of the W hut-circle (ROG95 52). To the S of this hut-circle the edge of the boggy ground is marked by a stony bank, which runs E-W for over 50m.

(ROG95 52, 58, 979)

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 21 March 1995

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