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Sgurr Beag
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Sgurr Beag
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Balmacara Estate
Canmore ID 87836
Site Number NG82NW 35
NGR NG 8068 2945
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/87836
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochalsh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (6 June 1994)
Hut circle: recorded in June 1994 during a comprehensive survey of Balmacara NTS estate. Full details are lodged with Dualchas, Skye and Lochalsh Museums Service.
Dualchas 1994a.
Field Visit (May 1994)
A stone built hut, 10 m in diameter over walls 1 m wide. The walls at the entrance thicken to 2.5 m in width, forming a passage 2.5 m long by 1 m wide on the inside. A ruined twinning pen lies within the hut. Situated in
birch woodland on an east facing hillside.
(BAL94-82-45)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
Condition Survey (1998 - 1998)
The slight remains of this round house are sited above the footpath that passes along the west side of the Coille Mhor Burn gorge, in the birch woodland
NTS Ref: BAL 017 (Information from condition report for NTS produced by Jill Harden 2000)
NTS commissioned condition report as follow-up to Dualchas survey undertaken by Jill Harden