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Glen Sleatdale
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Glen Sleatdale
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 7118
Site Number NC91SW 19
NGR NC 928 127
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7118
- Council Highland
- Parish Loth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC91SW 19 928 127.
Centred NC 928 127. A settlement of four stone-walled hut-circles ('A'-'D') and an associated enclosure within a small field system were discovered during field investigation on the lower slopes of a SE-facing hillside.
The huts are similar in form and condition, each set into the slope with an entrance in the SE arc, but peat growth obscures structural details. The sizes vary from 9.0m to 11.0m internal diameter within a wall of about 1.6m estimated thickness. A single portal stone remains at the entrance to hut 'A'.
Closing on the SE arc of hut 'B' is a roughly circular enclosure about 13.0m in diameter within a wall spread to 2.5m broad. There is an entrance in the SE. The field system occupies 3/4 hectare around the huts, and comprises an area of cleared ground bounded by four or five stone clearance heaps and some lynchets. One plot 20.0m by 10.0m is visible.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J M) 13 May 1976.
