Monument record MHG10757 - Cromsac Hill

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 7904 6324 (227m by 226m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC76SE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish FARR

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Full Description

At NC 7908 6327, on a natural terrace in a west-facing slope, is a stone walled structure within an associated field system. The structure is heather-covered, and appears to comprise three conjoined, sub-circular or oval chambers within a wall, low and indeterminate in the east, but elsewhere it is up to 0.6m high and spread on average to 2.0m broad.
The inner face of large stones on edge retaining a rubble core is exposed here and there. A lowering in the wall in SW arc may represent an entrance.
The field system around the structure occupies one hectare some irregurly-shaped cultivation plots can be identified (one measures 25.0m by 15.0m) bounded by clearance both linear and in heaps, and one or two lynchets. Down the slope some 80.0m to the west is further evidence of cultivation indicated by scattered clearance heaps. The pattern of cultivation is of the type commonly found in association with hut circles, and the mode of construction of the feature is distinctly 'hut-like'.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 1 July 1977.

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Record last edited

Aug 15 2016 10:23AM

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