Cnoc An Achaidh Mhoir
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cnoc An Achaidh Mhoir
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5107
Site Number NC50SE 43
NGR NC 5826 0215
NGR Description NC 5826 0215 and NC 5817 0212
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5107
- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50SE 43 5826 0215 and 5817 0212
At NC 5826 0215 and NC 5817 0212 on a SW-facing hillslope are two stone-walled hut circles (A and B respectively) in association with a minor field system. The contemporary agriculture is shown by some stone clearance heaps and by occasional lynchets in the surrounds to hut 'A'; no measurable cultivation plots are discernible.
'A' is about 8.0m N-S by 6.0m internally. Some outer facing stones are seen in the NW segment but mainly the wall is reduced to a 1.5-2.0m spread of peat-silted rubble expanding to 3.0m at a clubbed entrance from the S.
'B' on the edge of a present field, remains only in the SW half, the other being overlaid by banking of the main road. It would have been about 8.5m diameter internally. The wall survives as a turf-overgrown low band of rubble about 1.2m width; there is a simple entrance from the SW.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (J M) 29 July 1976.
