Islay, Bridgend, Borraichill Mor
Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Islay, Bridgend, Borraichill Mor
Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 37755
Site Number NR36SW 18
NGR NR 31555 64678
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37755
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killarow And Kilmeny
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (24 August 1979)
NR36SW 18 3154 6466.
At NR 3154 6467, in an area of abandoned 18/19th century land use, is an ill-preserved hut circle. It is 6.5m diameter inside a ragged wall reduced to a peat-silted stony spread, 2.0m broad by 0.4m high. The entrance is not evident. There are no traces of associated cultivation.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (J M) 24 August 1979.
Field Visit (May 1980)
NR 315 646 In an area of heather-covered, peaty moorland to the SE of Borraichill Mor, there are two hut-circles (see also NR36SW 17). The second, 180m to the E, lies on the W side of a turf wall, which has destroyed its SE quadrant. It measures about 7m internally within a bank 2m thick and 0.4m high.
Visited May 1980
RCAHMS 1984
Measured Survey (1980)
RCAHMS surveyed the hut-circles and field system at Borraichill Mor at a scale of 1:1000. The site plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 247.2). The hut circles were surveyed at 1:200 but unpublished.
