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Langwell
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Langwell
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Langwell Water; Cnoc Bad Fhasgaidh
Canmore ID 7553
Site Number ND02SE 6
NGR ND 0945 2216
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7553
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND02SE 6 0945 2216
See also ND02SE 39.
Fortified Enclosure, Langwell: On the top of the S bank of the Langwell Water, some 260 yds SSE of the road bridge below Cnoc Bad Fhasgaidh, and about 100 yds below the moor road, is a circular enclosure whose walls have evidently been spoiled to build an adjacent cottage and fold, now in ruins. The interior, which is slightly below the surrounding level, measures 32ft in diameter. The wall, which appears to have been faced on either side with large stones, is about 11ft thick and stands some 4ft above the level of the interior, 3ft above ground level externally. The entrance has been from the S.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
ND 0945 2216. An oval enclosure, 14.1m N-S by 13.5 m transversely, with an earth-and-stone bank 1.1m high internally, but only 0.6m high externally. No internal features were noted, and the entrance would appear to have been in the E (not S as stated by the RCAHMS), where the NW corner of a later, stone-walled enclosure overlies the bank.
The enclosure is one of the usual type, and may even be an old sheepfold.
Visited by OS (W D J), 16 June 1960.
(ND 0945 2216) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1964)
This is not a fortified enclosure, but a massive hut circle of Kilphedir II type (see NC91NE 25); other, similar dwellings occur in the area (see ND02SE 11 and ND02SE 13 ). The site has not deteriorated since the visit by the RCAHMS. The entrance was probably in the ESE; there is no break visible in the wall, but this sector is overlaid by an early-modern enclosure. Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B), 16 November 1982.
This hut-circle was recorded by Headland Archaeology during a pre-afforestation survey (NMRS MS 899/93, no.14). The adjacent rectangular enclosure may be associated with the long building to the W (ND02SE 39).
C Moloney and L Baker (Headland Archaeology) 13 July 1998; NMRS, MS/899/93, no.14
Site recorded during a survey undertaken of c 2 sq km of land either side of the Langwell Water, by Berriedale.
ND 0945 2216 Hut circle.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
C Moloney and L Baker 1998.
