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Sciberscross
Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Sciberscross
Classification Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 6052
Site Number NC71SE 1
NGR NC 7773 1050
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6052
- Council Highland
- Parish Clyne
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC71SE 1 7773 1050.
('A': NC 7768 1041 'B': NC 7769 1037 'C': NC 7769 1045) Enclosures (NR) OS 6"map, (1969)
An enclosure ('A') and two hut-circles ('B' and 'C') with another (unpublished) hut 'D' lying at NC 7773 1050.
Visited by OS (R D L) 23 April 1964.
'A', 'B' and 'C' are enclosures, probably part of the 18th to 19th century abandoned settlement in the area. 'D' is a hut-circle.
'A' is oval, measuring 15m NW-SE by 14m within a partly-overgrown, tumbled wall 1.4m in estimated width. The levelled site and the dimensions suggested that this is a hut, but the lack of entrance and its fresh appearance imply that it is a relatively modern enclosure.
'B' is roughly oval, measuring 6m by 5m within a crudely constructed wall of largish stones now displaced and overgrown. No entrance is apparent.
'C' is circular and measures 10m in diameter within a bare stone wall, 1.4m thick, which is roughly coursed in the south. No entrance is visible.
'D' is a ciruclar, stone-walled hut, set into the end of a small spur, and measures 8m in diameter within a reduced and overgrown wall spread to 2m. No entrance is visible. Any evidence of associated agriculture in the vicinity of the hut would have been destroyed by later cultivation.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J M) 16 March 1976.
Field Visit (19 August 1909)
35. Sciberscross. Some ¾ m. NE. of the farm-house is an elliptical enclosure 23' long by 7' wide, with an entrance 2' 6" wide towards the
E. passing through the wall near the S. end by the side of a large earth-fast boulder.
Near the lower end of the group of mounds, etc., directly above the point where the highest part of the birch wood to the E. of Sciberscross terminates towards the W., and about 150 yards distant from it, is a mound formed of largish stones, considerably overgrown withpeat, lying with its longest axis NNW. and SSE. It is 30’ in lengthby 15' in breadth and 1' to 2' in height. On the NW. extremity of it is placed a small round mound of 11' diameter and 1½' to 2' in height.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet xcvi. (unnoted).
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 19th August 1909.
