Rubha Na Guailne
Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Rubha Na Guailne
Classification Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Hut Circle (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 11608
Site Number NG64NE 1
NGR NG 6930 4627
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11608
- Council Highland
- Parish Applecross
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG64NE 1 6930 4627.
(NG 6930 4627) Hut Circles (NR)
OS 6"map, (1969)
'A' is a roughly built sub-circular structure with a wall varying between 0.8m and 1.1m thick and standing to a height of 1.3m. It measures 4.3m E-W by 3.6m with an entrance in the W. A curving wall has been built across the E corner isolating an area of the interior about 2.0m in diameter. This is undoubtedly a late structure, probably a sheep pen, and there is no evidence to suggest is overlies a hut circle.
'B' is a circular structure measuring 4.5m in diameter within a tumbled dry stone wall standing to a height of 0.9m and varying in width from 0.8m in the S to 1.8m in the N. It is 1.6m wide at the collapsed entrance in the W which originally would seem to have been little more than 0.5m wide. This may be a hut circle but its close proximity to 'A' suggests it could be a later structure. Both structures are set slightly into a rough W-facing slope and there is no cleared land in the vicinity.
Surveyed at 1:10560. (Visited by OS {R D} 21 April 1965)
Visited by OS (J M) 4 June 1969.
