Creag Nan Laogh
Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Creag Nan Laogh
Classification Cairnfield (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Rosa; Naver Forest; Strathnaver
Canmore ID 6202
Site Number NC74SW 2
NGR NC 7012 4173
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC74SW 2 7012 4173.
(NC 7012 4173) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1963)
An enclosure, possibly a hut circle, discovered during fieldwork.
Visited by OS (J L D) 11 May 1960.
This hut circle on west facing shelving ground is heather covered, is 12.0m by 10.5m inside a wall spread to 1.5-2.5m broad and standing at best 0.4m high; an entrance, from the south south west, is on the line of the longer axis. Contemporary cultivation is denoted in sporadic heaps of field clearance round about, but measurable plots are not discernible.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 27 May 1977.
Scheduled (with NC64SE 7, NC64SE 15, NC64SE 16 and NC74SW 1) as Rosal, hut circles, Naver Forest, Strathnaver.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 7 November 2000.
Scheduled (with NC64SE 7, NC64SE 15 and NC64SE 16) as 'Rosal, hut circles and clearance cairns, Naver Forest, Strathnaver... the remains of at least 16 hut circles and a number of associated field clearance cairns, representing a late prehistoric settlement.'
(Locations of individual hut-circles cited as NC 7013 4129, NO 7013 4173, NC 6998 4209, NC 6998 4225, NC 6902 4063 and NC 6837 4080. Location of centre of group of three hut-circles cited as NC 6989 4169, and location of centre of group of seven hut-circles cited as NC 6875 4076).
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 13 September 2005.
