Monument record MHG10647 - Croislach

NC71NE 21 782 157.

Centred NC 782 157. A settlement of four, simple stone- walled hut-circles, overgrown and poorly preserved, found during field investigation on a SW-facing hill-side.
'A', NC 7824 1579, levelled into a slight slope, consists of a platform about 12m in diameter, revetted on the SW, and bearing traces of a peripheral wall on the north half. No entrance is apparent. A 7m length of reduced walling springs from the SSW arc of the hut.
'B', NC 7824 1577, is set on the edge of a gully into which most of the SE arc has slipped. It measures about 6.5m N-S by 5m within a wall surviving as a low, overgrown band of rubble spread to 2m, in which no entrance is visible.
'C', NC 7817 1577, is the worst-preserved. The north arc is scooped into the bottom of a slope, but elsewhere it is very poorly defined. It measures about 10m N-S by 9.5m within a partly destroyed wall spread to 2m. Stones show in the base of the slope on the north. The entrance was probably in the south.
'D', NC 7822 1573, levelled into the top of a rise, is 11m N-S by 9m within a wall spread to 2m, with an entrance in the south. It is badly eroded by slip on the west.
Contemporary agriculture is indicated by one or two clearance heaps and some linear clearance in the immediate vicinity, but no pattern of cultivation plots can be discerned.
Surveyed at 1:10 560.
Visited by OS (J M) 10 December 1975.