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Skye, Glen Boreraig

Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Souterrain (Prehistoric)(Possible)

Site Name Skye, Glen Boreraig

Classification Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Souterrain (Prehistoric)(Possible)

Canmore ID 11429

Site Number NG51NE 2

NGR NG 59213 17435

NGR Description NG 59213 17435 and NG 59256 17444

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Strath
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

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Field Visit (15 May 1914)

Hut Circles, Glen Boreraig.

On a grass covered plateau near the middle of Glen Boreraig, about 400 yards west of Dun Kearstach (NG51NE 3), at an elevation of 300 feet above sea-level, is a hut circle 41 feet in diameter internally with an entrance 5 feet wide on the east-south-east. Two lines of stones set on edge, the foundation stones of the outer and inner faces of the wall, are still in situ, showing a breadth of 5 feet except on either side of the entrance, where it widens to 7 feet. A modern stone enclosure about 4 feet in diameter, a lamb-fold, occupies the centre of the circle.

Some 95 feet to the east-north-east are the stone foundations of an oval enclosure 36 feet in length from north-west to south-east and 20 feet in breadth, with the segment of a hut circle approximately 11 feet in diameter near the south-eastern end. A modern lamb-fold occupies the centre of the latter structure.

The large hut circle is erroneously noted as stone circle (site of) on O.S. map.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 15 May 1914.

OS map: Skye xlvi.

Field Visit (18 April 1961)

NG51NE 2 5921 1743.

(NG 5921 1743) Stone Circle (NR) (site of)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Hut Circles (NR)

OS 1"map, 7th series.

The larger of the two features described by the RCAHMS is too big for a hut circle and must be some form of enclosure. In the S quadrant the walling appears either to have been disturbed, or, on the analogy of Sutherland/Caithness examples, to possibly be the entrance to an earth-house. The second feature described is not now recognisable as a hut circle.

Visited by OS (C F W) 18 April 1961.

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