Monument record MHG10512 - Torbreck Burn

NC70NW 61 7066 0619

At NC 7066 0620, in shelving ground on a S-facing slope, is a hut circle. There are no conclusive signs of associated land-use. The hut measures 8.3 by 8.0m within a boulder faced wall, 1.5m thick, distinguished by a well-preserved inner face; the entrance is in the SE. Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (J M) 19 May 1981.

There are two hut-circles lying on the E (ROG95 195) and NW (ROG95 196) edges of a scatter of small cairns (ROG95 929) to the NE of the Torbreck Burn.
The E hut-circle (ROG95 195, NC 7066 0619), previously recorded by the OS (1981), is levelled into a SE-facing hillside and measures 8m in diameter within a boulder-faced bank 1.2m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The terminals of the bank expand to 2.1m in thickness at the entrance, which is on the ESE. The inner face may be faceted.
The NW hut-circle (ROG95 196, NC 7055 0622) is levelled into the back of a small terrace on the steeply-sloping valley side. It measures 9.9m from N to S by 9.2m transversely within an earthen bank spread to 2.1m in thickness and 0.3m in height. The entrance is on the S.
There are about twenty small cairns (ROG95 929), measuring up to 4m in diameter and 0.4m in height, scattered across the ridge and valley side between the two hut-circles. The ground between the cairns is smooth and free from stone litter.
(ROG95 195-6, 929)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 15 May 1995