Savalbeg, West
Field System (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Savalbeg, West
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Lairg Muir
Canmore ID 4993
Site Number NC50NE 24
NGR NC 593 074
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4993
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50NE 24 593 074
See also NC50NE 26 and NC50NE 61.
A: NC 5931 0737, B: NC 5938 0735 Enclosure (NR) (C: NC 5932 0749) Enclosures (NR). The feature at NC 5924 0754 is NC50NE 25).
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)
During field investigation three enclosures or hut circles were discovered and surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 27 June 1963.
At NC 593 074 on a low rise amidst marshy ground is a settlement of three roughly similar huts (A-C), noted in the previous field report, within an associated minor field system. The huts vary from 8.5m to 12.0m internal diameter within tumbled stone walls spread to 3.0m broad, and surviving to 0.3m maximum height. All the huts are mutilated, and details of construction are obscured; the entrances where visible are in the S and SE arcs. The field system occupies about three hectares and is comprised of widely scattered stone clearance heaps with no measurable plots visible. Parts of the system are overlaid by later cultivation including run-rig and larger clearance heaps up to 10.0m in diameter.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 12 August 1976.
