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Whiteleen West
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Whiteleen West
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Of Yarrows; South Yarrows
Canmore ID 9058
Site Number ND34SW 50
NGR ND 31239 42722
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9058
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 50 31239 42722
At ND 3123 4271 at the base of a W-facing slope beside a stream is a circular stone-walled hut measuring 11.0m in diameter between the centres of a wall spread to about 3.0m all round. The inner face dry-built of flat slabs can be seen for 2.0m to the N of the simple entrance in the W. An outer wall facing stone at this point gives a wall thickness of 2.4m. Several more outer facing stones of slabs on edge are visible round the N arc.
There is no trace of contemporary cultivation.
Visited by OS (I S S), 13 March 1972.
(ND 3123 4271) Settlement (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).
Scheduled under site-name Loch of Yarrows.
Information from Historic Scotland: scheduling document dated 29 October 1999.
This hut-circle is situated 770m SE of South Yarrows farmsteading (ND34SW 474), on a W-facing terrace above a steep-sided burn gully to the S of Loch of Yarrows. The hut-circle measures 9.9m in diameter within a wall reduced to a stony bank 2.6m in thickness and up to 0.6m in height. There are several outer facing-stones visible, especially on the N, and the interior of the hut-circle appears to be set into the slope on the NE. The entrance is situated on the WSW, and an external baffle wall 4.5m in length and 2.2m in thickness springs from its N side. Further short lengths of bank lie adjacent to the stream immediately W of the hut-circle and upslope to the E.
(YARROWS04 211)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH), 29 June 2004
