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Loch Lunndaich
Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Lunndaich
Classification Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5962
Site Number NC70SE 9
NGR NC 7909 0068
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5962
- Council Highland
- Parish Golspie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC70SE 9 7909 0068.
(NC 7909 0068) Hut Circle (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)
On the NE side of Loch Lundie, (Loch Lunndaich) and some three hundred yards along from its E extremity, is a hut circle, now ill-defined. Near it and on the hillside above are seven or eight mounds.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
The hut circle noted by RCAHMS (1911) is 12.0m in diameter between centres of a heather overgrown wall. An entrance gap is not evident. Contemporary cultivation is marked by several stone clearance heaps on the hill slope to the NE.
Visited by OS (R D L) 15 April 1964 and (J M) 7 August 1975.
