Gylable Burn
Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Gylable Burn
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 7080
Site Number NC91NW 30
NGR NC 949 176
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC91NW 30 949 176
At NC 949 176, on a broad shelf in a N-facing slope, is a settlement of four poorly-preserved hut circles (A-D) within a field system. The huts vary in internal size from the best-preserved, 'A', at 8.5m WNW-ESE by 7.0m, to 6.5m NW-SE by 5.5m (D) within heather and peat-covered walls spread to 2.5m, in which no structural details are visible. The entrance to each hut is in the SE arc.
The field system occupying nine hectares of the undulating shelf incorporates several cultivation plots delineated by stone clearance heaps joined by lynchets; the plots measure about 40.0m by 20.0m average size.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 May 1976.
See also NC91NW 31 Gylable Burn-Hut Circles; Small Cairns and NC91NE 55 Oulmsdale Burn-Burn Mound.
Central Excavation Unit, Excavation and survey 1983.
CEU site 57/2/9 = hut circle OS 30b.
Excavation (1983)
Central Excavation Unit, Excavation and survey 1983.
CEU site 57/2/9 = hut circle OS 30b.
