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Wood Of Schivas
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Wood Of Schivas
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Oldmill Of Schivas; The New House
Canmore ID 20454
Site Number NJ93NW 25
NGR NJ 90204 35216
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20454
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Tarves
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ93NW 25 90204 35216
Location formerly entered as NJ 9021 3521.
For surrounding rig and cultivation remains (centred NJ 902 353), see NJ93NW 30.
At NJ 9021 3521 is an oval stone-walled hut measuring 13.5m NNW-SSE by 12.0m transversely between the centres of a wall spread to about 3.0m. The interior has recent field clearance piled inside it and the ill-defined entrance in the SSE is also choked with rubble. The hut is surrounded by rig and furrow cultivation (NJ93NBW 30) which has destroyed most evidence of contemporary cultivation except a few stone clearance heaps about 100m to the S.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (I S S) 1 March 1973.
This monument is situated in an area of grassland and heather scrub at an altitude of about 50m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/36.
Scheduled as 'The New House, hut circle 250m NW of... visible as a low, grass-covered penannnular stony bank... on the summit of a small hill, at 50m above sea level...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 16 February 2009.
(Location amended to NJ 90204 35216 on basis of depiction on OS (GIS) MasterMap).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 March 2009.
