Islay, Duich
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Islay, Duich
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 37677
Site Number NR35SW 8
NGR NR 31933 54677
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37677
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilchoman
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (13 July 1979)
NR35SW 8 3193 5467.
At NR 3193 5467, on a rise in open moorland, is a hut circle. It remains as a heather-covered circular platform, 13.0m across and 0.4m high, rimmed with a ragged wall most pronounced at 1.0m broad by 0.1m high; no stone is visible in the wall. An entrance is no longer discernible. A fence crosses the south arc of the hut.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JM) 13 July 1979.
Field Visit (June 1980)
NR 319 546. This large hut-circle is situated 200m N of Duich in level moorland on the N side of the Duich River. Its wall, which encloses a slightly dished interior measuring 9m by 9.5m has been reduced to a peat covered bank 0.5m high; the bank has an average thickness of 2.5m, increasing to 3m on each side of the entrance gap, 3m wide, situated on the SE. A modern fence crosses the S arc.
Visited June 1980
RCAHMS 1984
Measured Survey (1980)
RCAHMS surveyed the hut-circle at Duich at a scale of 1:200. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 137B).
