Little Larg, Awies

NX16NE 82 1522 6571and 1532 6571.

On the S flank of the hill called Awies there are two hut-circles situated within a field system.

1. NX 1522 6571 The larger hut-circle measures about 11.5m in internal diameter, its wall visible as a peat-covered mound 2.5m thick between 0.2m and 0.3m in height; there is a broad entrance on the ESE.

2. NX 1632 6571 The other hut-circle, which lies 90m to the E, measures 6.5m in diameter within a bank 2.5m in thickness by between 0.2m and 0.3m in height. The entrance, which is on the ESE, is protected by a baffle wall reduced to a stony platform measuring 6m from NE to SW by 4m transversely and 0.3m in height.

The field system extends over an area of at least 2.5 ha. To the NW a round the larger hut-circle, it comprises a group of at least fifteen cairns which measure between 2m and 4m in diameter and are up to 0.4m in height. Towards the SE the scatter of cairns fades out, but to the S of the smaller hut-circle there are traces of at least three stony banks running up and down the slope.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 8 May 1986.