The Forkin
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name The Forkin
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 7508
Site Number ND02NE 7
NGR ND 0934 2583
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7508
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND02NE 7 0934 2583.
At ND 0934 2583, set into a SW-facing slope, is a hut circle, 9.0m in diameter within a heather-covered wall, 0.4m average height and spread to 2.5m. The entrance is in the SE. Contiguous to the E tangent of the hut is a circular area, 5.0m in diameter, levelled into the slope.
There is no trace of a wall around it, but here the heather is very dense. It may be a forecourt arrangement of possibly a second hut circle. There is no trace of associated cultivation.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 8 November 1982.
