Reidchalmai
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Reidchalmai
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Pittentrail Hill Grazings, Rogart
Canmore ID 5997
Site Number NC70SW 40
NGR NC 7243 0326
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC70SW 40 7243 0326.
(NC 7243 0326) Undescribed feature.
OS 25" map, (1968)
This is a hut circle situated on the summit of a ridge. It measures 8.3m diameter internally and has an entrance in the SE; the wall has an inner face of contiguous slabs. Several peat-covered mounds nearby indicate associated field clearance, as may also an outlying group of mounds to the west (NC70SW 19).
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 19 March 1981.
This hut-circle was recorded during a pre-afforestation survey at Pittentrail hill Grazings, Rogart. One of the small cairns associated with the hut-circle also lies within the area of the application.
M Dalland and L Baker (Headland Archaeology) 15 September 1999; NMRS MS 899/177, no.2
Field Visit (5 June 1995)
This hut-circle (ROG95 518), which is levelled into the side of a ridge to the SW of Reidchalmai, measures 8m in diameter within a boulder-faced bank 1.3m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The entrance is on the SE. There are about ten small cairns (ROG95 1016), measuring up to 5m in diameter and 0.4m in height, along the crest of the ridge to the SE of the hut-circle.
(ROG95 518, 1016)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 5 June 1995
