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Loch Ma Naire
Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Ma Naire
Classification Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 6352
Site Number NC75SW 6
NGR NC 7254 5399
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6352
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC75SW 6 7254 5399.
NC 7254 5399. A circular enclosure 13.0m in diameter was discovered during field investigation. No entrance is apparent, thus it may be an old sheepfold.
Visited by OS (J L D) 5 May 1960.
Levelled into the east flank of a spur is a tumbled and turf-covered enclosure, probably overlying a hut circle. It measures 12.0m in diameter within a wall about 1.4m wide and 1.0m maximum height in the NW. The wall forms a complete circuit; there is no entrance discernible. The absence of boulder facing stones and an entrance, the height of the wall in relation to the width, and the slight anguarity of the remains suggest that this enclosure is contemporary with the nearby early modern building foundations and associated rig-and-furrow. But the size, the wall width, the setting into the slope, and the proximity of about twenty scattered stone clearance heaps to the north may indicate a hut circle subsequently modified for a stock enclosure.
Re-surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 30 January 1979.
