Loch Robin
Hollow(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Loch Robin
Classification Hollow(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 62155
Site Number NX25NW 17
NGR NX 245 558
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62155
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Old Luce
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX25NW 17 Area 245 558.
(NX 2457 5589) Hut Circles (NR) (3 shown)
OS 6" map (1957)
Two small, circular, bowl-shaped hollows which may be pit dwellings. They measure 6' and 8' in diameter across the top respectively and are 1' to 1'6" deep. At the extreme east end of the hillock is a small cairn-like mound measuring about 8' in diameter.
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911
On the west side of Loch Robin at the side of a natural rocky mound there is a dug-out hut of 12' by 8' the earth being thrown out to the east, towards the loch. At the south there is a mound of stone and turf about 4' high, 12' thick and 35' long narrowing where it leads northward. It is a continuation of a natural rocky mound, and where it begins there is a hollow space 9' by 6'.
G Wilson 1899
No trace was seen of these features in an area now deeply ploughed and afforested.
Visited by OS (BS) 24 June 1976