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Cuag
Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cuag
Classification Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 8163
Site Number ND13SE 44
NGR ND 1557 3298
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8163
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND13SE 44 1557 3298.
At ND 1557 3298, on the hillside above the E bank of the Burn of Houstry, is a hut circle measuring 7.5m NNW-SSE by 5.5m within a turf and heather covered wall, 0.3m high and spread to a width of 2.0m. The entrance is in the SSE.
Associated land-use is indicated by a scatter of stone clearance heaps, particularly noticeable along a natural shelf N of the hut.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 20 October 1982.
This hut-circle is lies in an area of dense gorse and bracken on a terrace overlooking the abandoned farmsteading of Cuag (ND13SE 104), immediately E of the track leading down to the steading and Burn of Houstry. The hut-circle measures 10.5m from N to S by 9m transversely within walls 0.3m in height and spread 1.8m in thickness. The entrance is on the S or SSE.
A group of at least ten small cairns, presumably the result of field clearance, can be seen along the terrace to the N of the hut-circle and others may be hidden in the patches of gorse and bracken to the SSE.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, IP) August 1997
