Scottarie Burn
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Scottarie Burn
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6510
Site Number NC80NW 8
NGR NC 8145 0985
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Clyne
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC80NW 8 8145 0985.
(NC 8145 0985) Two contiguous circles shown but not annotated.
OS 6"map, (1969)
Some 150 yards W of the hut circle (NC80NW 7) is a stone-walled oblong structure. It contains the ruins of a circular structure.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
A stone-walled enclosure generally as planned by RCAHM, except that the internal "circular structure" appears to be a fortuitous arrangement of tumble. It measures internally 13 5m NW-SE by 5.4m within a wall of base stones about 2.0m thick widening to 3.0m at the entrance in the SE side. There is no evidence of cultivation in the immediate vicinity.
This structure does not resemble a hut circle in either shape or construction. The inner face, where best-preserved, comprises stones laid flat with up to three roughly-laid courses, whereas a hut wall is invariably formed of stones on edge. Though no galleries can be seen, it is similar in some respects to the Caithness "wags", see NC80NE 21 & NC91SW 1.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS ((W D J) 25 April 1964 and (J B) 8 December 1975.
Field Visit (19 August 1909)
37. Scottarie Burn. [NC80NW 5] About 100 yards SW. of the site of the broch at Kilbrare, on the Scottarie Burn, is a small circular enclosure of about 17' interior diameter. The entrance is from the SE. and is about 2' wide. The bank or wall, which is about 5' thick, is on its inner face lined with large contiguous boulders from 1' to 1½' high and 1½' to 2' across. One or two small mounds lie near.
On the hillside, to the SW. of the shepherd's house at Kilbrare, is a group of small mounds, some of which have been opened.
Below the upper end of the group is a hut circle of simple oval form, the outline of which, however, is rather indefinite.
About ½ m. up the glen of the Scottarie Burn, on its W. side, is a stone-built hut circle of 34' interior diameter [NC80NW 7]. The entrance is from the E. through a passage 9' long and 3' wide. The wall, now
broken down, is about 5' 6" in thickness, widening towards the
entrance.
Some 150 yards higher up the glen are the ruins of an oblong
structure [NC80NW 8], with walls entirely of stone, in the construction of which very large boulders have been used. The entrance is from the SE.
The total length of the interior is 46', and the greatest width 18'.
The wall is 7' thick, expanding to 10' on either side of the entrance, which is 4' wide. At the back of the interior are the ruins of a circular building measuring 15' x 14' over all, but as the space occupied by it is entirely covered by the ruins, the thickness of its wall and position and details of the entrance are not ascertainable (fig. 6).
About 170 yards up the glen is a group of a score or so of mounds [NC80NW 6], well defined, measuring from 10' to 26' in diameter.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet xcvii. (unnoted).
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 19th August 1909.
