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Loch Mhuilinn
Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Mhuilinn
Classification Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 6623
Site Number NC81SW 32
NGR NC 8292 1246
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6623
- Council Highland
- Parish Clyne
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC81SW 32 8292 1246.
There are two stone-walled huts ('A' and 'B') and a minor field system situated in undulating moorland.
'A' NC 8290 1242 On the summit of a knoll, 5.5m internal diameter within a wall obscured by peat build-up spread to 1.5m broad. The position of the entrance is uncertain.
'B' NC 82941250 Comprising a hut similar in appearance to 'A' placed concentrically within an earlier hut each sharing a common entrance in the SSE. The inner hut is circulr 7.0m internal diameter within a wall of bare stones 0.3m high and spread to 1.5m broad. Some inner facing stones and an entrance portal slab are discernible. The outer hut, partially overlaid by the inner, is oval measuring internally 11.0m NNW-SSE by 10.0m within a peat-obscured wall 0.5m high and spread to 2.5m broad.
In the vicinity of huts are scattered areas of cleared ground confined to dry rises. Three or four clearance heaps are visible.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J B) 5 January 1976.
