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South Yarrows
Bank (Earthwork)(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name South Yarrows
Classification Bank (Earthwork)(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Hill Of Yarrows
Canmore ID 9011
Site Number ND34SW 13
NGR ND 30300 43325
NGR Description ND 30300 43325 and ND 3029 4331
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9011
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 13 30300 43325 and 3029 4331
A hut circle, interior diameter 20 to 21ft, within a bank 1 1/2 to 2ft high and originally 6 to 8ft thick, lies on a slight elevation about 1/3 mile W by S of the broch of Yarrows (ND34SW 1). The entrance, from the E, is marked by two portal stones 1ft 4ins and 1ft 8ins high, set 2ft 4ins apart.
To the N of the circle, some 30ft from the entrance, is a mound lying E-W, measuring some 17ft long by 13ft broad by 2 1/2ft high. To the W of it nearer the circle, there appears to be another of lesser dimensions.
RCAHMS 1911.
A hut circle and two stone clearance heaps, at ND 3029 4331, within an ancient field some 75 by 50m. At its N end the field is defined by a disconnected row of large stones; elsewhere it is barely discernible.
Hut circle surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B), 4 May 1967.
(ND 3030 4332) Hut Circle (NR)
Visited by OS (N K B), 4 May 1967.
There is a hut-circle, a hut and two stony banks on a low rise in moorland to the S of Loch Brickigoe. The hut-circle measures 7.9m in diameter within a wall reduced to a stony bank up to 1.8m in thickness and 0.6m in height, and there is an entrance on the E that is defined by edge-set stones. What appears to be a rectangular hut has been built against the hut-circle on the NE. This hut, which is open-sided to the NE, measures 3.5m from NW to SE by 1.8m transversely over a stony bank 0.5m in height. On the NE two short lengths of stony bank extend away to the NE and ENE respectively.
(YARROWS04 236)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH), 30 June 2004
