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Sciberscross
Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Sciberscross
Classification Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 6077
Site Number NC71SE 32
NGR NC 7742 1050
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6077
- Council Highland
- Parish Clyne
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC71SE 32 7742 1050.
NC 7742 1050 A stone-walled hut-circle within an associated field system was discovered during field investigation on the upper, moorland slopes of a hillside open to the S and intruded on by 18th/19th century abandoned settlement from the S and E.
The hut, built up on a rise, is about 11.5m diameter over a wall of indeterminate thickness; the interior bears signs of disturbance seen in a thin spread of turf-overgrown rubble. Two earthfast, opposing slabs, standing to 0.6m high and 1.2m apart, in the south wall arc are undoubtedly portal stones.
The field system is 200m E-W by 100m N-W and is clearly indicated by stone clearance heaps and the odd lynchet; cultivation plots cannot be discerned.
Surveyed at 1:10 560.
Visited by OS (J M) 16 March 1976.
Field Visit (19 August 1909)
33. Sciberscross. Some 600 yards NNW. of the farmhouse of Sciberscross, on the E. side of the road that leads across the moor to Ben Armine Lodge, is a small group of mounds larger and more conspicuous than usual. The mound nearest to the road has a diameter of 24' and height of about 3'; another, 30' N., is 29' in diameter and in height 3' 6” to 4'. On the top of the latter is a depression of about 8” in depth and 6' in diameter.
Some 100 yards E. of the road is a long low mound about 3' high, with its longest axis NNE. and SSW. 39' in length, 19' in breadth at the SSW. end, and 11' at the NNE. extremity. 12' distant from it, at the N. end, lies a small mound of 11' diameter, and 9' away at the opposite end is another, 13' in diameter (fig. 4).
To the S. of the mounds are the faint indications of an ancient enclosing bank. Where it forms an angle there appears to have been an entrance and abutting on one side of it a small enclosure measuring about 9' x 12' in interior diameter. In the vicinity are several small circular enclosures of about 10' interior diameter, with banks about 4' thick and entrances from the SE. One of these is set against the end of a fairly large mound, which has, in consequence, been slightly dilapidated. Many other mounds lie around.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet xcvi. (unnoted).
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 19th August 1909.
