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Loch Calder
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Loch Calder
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 7916
Site Number ND06SE 24
NGR ND 0559 6046
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7916
- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND06SE 24 0559 6046.
At ND 0559 6046 is a circular, stone-walled hut, visible as a hollow set into the SE side of a slight rise, and measuring about 11.0m in diameter between the centres of a heavily peat-covered wall, spread to an indeterminate width. The denuded entrance is indicated by a gap of about 3.0m in the SE arc.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (I S S) 16 March 1972.
(ND 0559 6046) Settlement (NR) (One of eight hut circles shown.)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
A hut circle as described. The heather cover in the vicinity is smooth and uniform suggesting former cultivation (see type-site ND06SE 27).
Visited by OS (N K B) 18 September 1981.
