Creag An Sgor

NJ31NE 81 3717 1861

See also NJ31NE 15 and NJ31NE 81.

Scheduled (with NJ31NE 15 and NJ31NE 81 ) as 'Upperton, ring-ditches 735m, 775m, 875m, 995m and 1095m NE of... a group of five ring-ditch gouses... visible as upstanding features strung out along the southern lower slopes of Creag an Sgor. The easternmost house [plotted at NJ 3740 1868] measures 8m in diameter within a stony bank up to 1.5m in thickness within a stony bank up to 1.5m in thickness and 0.3m in height. The next house [plotted at NJ 3725 1869] is 140m W and downslope of the former. It measures 9m in diameter within a wall reduced to a stone bank up to 1.5m in thickness and 0.2m in height. About 125m to the SE [plotted at NJ 3717 1861] is situated the third ring-ditch and about 110m SE from the third house there are a pair of ring-ditches 26m apart. The NE house [plotted at NJ 3707 1854] measures 8.6m in diameter within a wall reduced to a thick stony bank. On the NW the bank measures up to 2.2m in thickness and 0.4m in height, but where both inner and outer facing-stones are present on the W, the original thickness of the wall is 1m. The SW house [plotted at NJ 3704 1851] measures 7.1m in diameter within a bank up tp 2.5m in thickness and 0.2m in height.' [The locations cited are derived from the plan attached to the scheduling document. Historic Scotland appear to recognise a further ring-ditch at NJ 3717 1861, between the pairs recorded as NJ31NE 15 and NJ31NE 81 : this is entered as NJ31NE 125].

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 September 2007.