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Broughwhin
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Broughwhin
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 9015
Site Number ND34SW 17
NGR ND 31222 41249
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9015
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 17 3122 4125.
(Area : ND 312 412) The remains of a stone-built hut circle, about 14 ft internal diameter, within a wall 4ft thick, lie between Garrywhin fort (ND34SW 3) and the loch of Broughwhin (ND 3120 4118) and about 80ft north of the edge of the latter.
Against the outer wall on the north are signs of a small oval chamber, and in the interior is a suggestion of an inner circle, such as has been observed elsewhere (ND34SW 16), but the debris and overgrowth of heather obscure the details.
In front of the circle, and some 30ft to the SW, is a low mound with a diameter of about 11ft.
RCAHMS 1911.
The hut circle described by the Commission is the westernmost of a line of three, situated at ND 3122 4125 on a narrow terrace below Garrywhin fort and possibly associated with it. No trace of the oval chamber or inner circle remain and this hut circle cannot be equated with the probable burial cairn (ND34SW 16) due to the difference in construction and topographic position. The mound to the SW is a shieling site (see ND34SW 257).
The other hut circles are more indeterminate. The easternmost measures 6.0m in diameter overall, with an entrance in the ESE and the other is 7.0m overall diameter, with no obvious entrance.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 27 April 1967.
(ND 31224 4124) Hut Circles (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
Only the westernmost of a line of three hut-circles reported by the Ordnance Survey in 1967 was found on the date of visit. It is situated on the heather-grown, S-facing slope between the Garrywhin fort (ND34SW 3) and the millpond at Broughwhin, and measures 5.2m in diameter within a stony bank 1.4m in thickness and up to 0.5m in height. The interior has been levelled into the slope and the position of the entrance is probably indicated by a gap in bank on the SE.
(YARROWS04 74)
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG, ATW) 16 June 2004